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Article #4460Re: debates
From: Jim Carr
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 18:59
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 18:59
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In article <1992Nov6.153132.7988@midway.uchicago.edu> sl26@midway.uchicago.edu writes: > >Frankly I'm quite surprised that there exist people who believe the >realistic view of science, which I thought were dead long long time ago. > ... Maybe as far as philosophers go, but I know plenty of physicists who take the "realistic" view, both theorists and experimentalists. Often it was this view that got them interested in physics in the first place. And, of course, ones view of epistemology does not necessarily affect how you do your science: an external observer may have very different opinions of what is going on that the actual participants. >However, one should never fail to discern theories from real hard facts. I suppose the same statement applies to theories about how scientists decide what is a "fact".... -- J. A. Carr | "The New Frontier of which I jac@gw.scri.fsu.edu | speak is not a set of promises Florida State University B-186 | -- it is a set of challenges." Supercomputer Computations Research Institute | John F. Kennedy (15 July 60)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pmafire!news.dell.com!swrinde!gatech!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!sun13!ds8.scri.fsu.edu!jac From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: debates Message-ID: <11281@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 8 Nov 92 18:59:14 GMT References: <Bx5qtw.Cvw@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> <MATT.92Nov5105233@physics2.berkeley.edu> <1992Nov6.085912.1@fnala.fnal.gov> <1992Nov6.153132.7988@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@sun13.scri.fsu.edu Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) Organization: SCRI, Florida State University Lines: 23