Article View: sci.bio.botany
Article #174Re: Science Struggle
From: Alan McGowen
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:00
71 lines
3345 bytes
3345 bytes
--------------F5655EC01AD634D3A420D309 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit charliew wrote: > But Alan, I don't live at relativistic velocities. My everyday experience is in the > > realm of classical physics, where simultaneity does not apply. This also applies to you, > > and everyone else on this planet. That is my original point - this "common" view of > > reality is somewhat subjective, even if most of us are not aware that it is. > You have shifted your argument. Orginally, you were claiming that reality is "subjective". Now you are saying that something called "the common view" of reality is somewhat subjective. I have no disagreement with that. But it's the business of science to identify the biases in "the common view" and correct for them, exactly as Einstein did in special relativity. That is how we come to understand more of the objective order of reality. -- Alan McGowen --------------F5655EC01AD634D3A420D309 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> charliew wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <pre>But Alan, I don't live at relativistic velocities. My everyday experience is in the</pre> <pre>realm of classical physics, where simultaneity does not apply. This also applies to you,</pre> <pre>and everyone else on this planet. That is my original point - this "common" view of</pre> <pre>reality is somewhat subjective, even if most of us are not aware that it is.</pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p><br>You have shifted your argument. Orginally, you were claiming that reality is "subjective". Now you are saying that something called "the common view" of reality is somewhat subjective. <p>I have no disagreement with that. But it's the business of science to identify the biases in "the common <br>view" and correct for them, exactly as Einstein did in special relativity. That is how we come to understand more of the objective order of reality. <pre>-- Alan McGowen </pre> </body> </html> --------------F5655EC01AD634D3A420D309--
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<37E91799.EC787F90@cup.hp.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<7rrk1v$tr6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7rsg3h$2rss$1@news.hal-pc.org> <37E684FF.81B159A2@cup.hp.com> <7s71cg$14b2$1@news.hal-pc.org> <37E7BD29.4827D612@cup.hp.com> <7s9kh2$305e$1@news.hal-pc.org>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd92c,7831a6255ad3ad65 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd92c,public X-Google-Thread: 10bcbe,7831a6255ad3ad65 X-Google-Attributes: gid10bcbe,public X-Google-Thread: fdefa,7831a6255ad3ad65 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdefa,public X-Google-Thread: 10607c,7831a6255ad3ad65 X-Google-Attributes: gid10607c,public From: Alan McGowen <amcgowen@cup.hp.com> Subject: Re: Science Struggle Date: 1999/09/22 Message-ID: <37E91799.EC787F90@cup.hp.com> X-Deja-AN: 528318680 References: <7rrk1v$tr6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7rsg3h$2rss$1@news.hal-pc.org> <37E684FF.81B159A2@cup.hp.com> <7s71cg$14b2$1@news.hal-pc.org> <37E7BD29.4827D612@cup.hp.com> <7s9kh2$305e$1@news.hal-pc.org> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------F5655EC01AD634D3A420D309" Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co. Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.bio.botany,bionet.biology.grasses,sci.environment,uk.environment