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Article #6975Re: RATIONALISM IN CRISIS (DEAD?)
From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:19
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:19
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Harvey Brown, the President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, is also trying to resurrect dead rationalism: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pls/portallive/docs/1/36825712.DOC "Einstein compared his development of the special theory of relativity with that of thermodynamics. In both cases the theory was based on a small number of principles or laws from which everything followed. Such a 'principle theory' may be contrasted with 'constructive theories', such as statistical mechanics in which macroscopic behaviour is derived from the physics of interactions of atoms and molecules they comprise.....This project will aim to develop a microscopic explanation of the Lorentz contraction based on relativistic quantum mechanics. Professor Harvey Brown at Oxford University has indicated that if the project is successful it will be the first constructive theory of the special theory of relativity." Needless to say, the "microscopic explanation of the Lorentz contraction", in the light of the fact that, according to Einstein's special relativity, this contraction is RECIPROCAL, can only aggravate the absurdity. A much more reasonable project would involve independent verification of the "small number of principles or laws from which everything followed" (true or false?) and also logical verification of the arguments in the deductive chains (valid or invalid?) allowing "everything" to follow from "a small number of principles or laws". Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
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