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To: metmom
So, I'll ask again, as you've been asked before.... Can you ever just address the comment you're responding to without going off on some tangent?

The "observer problem" is a very technical term in quantum theory. It is not a New Age touchie feelie catch-all term for asserting that science can't be objective.

That use of the term is a central theme in deconstructionism. Feminist science and the like.

211 posted on 01/09/2009 11:46:52 AM PST by js1138
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To: js1138; betty boop

Science cannot be objective because it’s a thing.

Scientists can’t be objective because they are subjective beings inside the system they are studying and have preconceived philosophical presuppositions about the universe around them.


212 posted on 01/09/2009 11:55:27 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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