On 11/22/2019 12:09 AM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote:
Well... maybe when you are a 50 years old scientist, you can say that,
but this is not the spirit in which science is teached to children or
popularized to laymen. The spirit of science popularization is that it
gives us the truth, and we should obey or die. If scientists are such
moral people, then why they don't tell to their students in the first
class of their course that they will only present to them a model ?
Instead, they jump right in: "Space is such-and-such, time is
such-and-such.". I never heard any professor of mine telling us that
they are only presenting us models.
I have. Maybe my professor, Englebert Schucking, was more honest, or
likely more philosophical.
Brent
On Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:23:27 UTC+2, Brent wrote:
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to
interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a
mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal
interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification
of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it
is expected to work.
--—John von Neumann
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