🚀 go-pugleaf

The important issue of the philosophy-science relation has narrowed to the 
theory-observation relation. Yet, curiously enough, philosophical issues are 
being discussed because the proper way to understand science always widens to 
philosophy. One may use Aristotle, the philosophical inventor or discoverer of 
science, or Wittgenstein, the destroyer of science. Science is the application 
of philosophical knowledge such as reality, order, identity, entity, event, 
causality, condition, occasion, experience, logic, science, system, hypothesis, 
deduction, induction, proof, truth. falsity, experiment. The rational Greeks 
invented science and modern nihilists are destroying it. Those who refuse to 
use a philosophical perspective on science don't even know its happening. 
	One does not observe "description" in a lab. One observes entities (or, 
if you must, events) which, then, one wants to describe. But where did 
"description" (or any other philosphical fact) come from???
________________________________________________________________________________
	"In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit
you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and cer-
tainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
                                                              AYN RAND
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Stephen Grossman <PMSC13SG@UMASSD.EDU>
================================================================================