To: Steely Tom
At some point, science becomes religion and rejects its pedigree as Natural Philosophy. Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use. ― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, L'il et l'Esprit
4 posted on
10/16/2015 7:26:28 AM PDT by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: Ouchthatonehurt
At some point, science becomes religion and rejects its pedigree as Natural Philosophy.
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Settled science
What settles out to the bottom of a lake, pond, test tube, ...?
Various kinds of crud and scum.
Settled science
13 posted on
10/16/2015 11:48:23 AM PDT by
Scrambler Bob
(Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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