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Re: Be careful what you ask for in case you actually get it (was: slight)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:49:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> > That about sums it up for me, as well. Nicely said.
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> I am not sure how to take this statement. Are you accepting Aristotlean
> methods as the chief utility of scientific thought and all rational inquiry,
> or are you somehow thinking that you go from "I don't know" to asserting the
> existence of your Xtian god? If the former, well good for you -- welcome to
> modern western culture; if the latter, you are still not getting it...
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> -- Hop-Frog
Start passing out the cigars. I may not know all the principles that
Aristotle laid out, but if it's based on the concept that"
Quoteth Hop-Frog
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> the idea that "I don't know" is the way
> to begin the understanding of anything. What I do know encompasses few
> things, what "I don't know" encompasses a good deal greater number of
> things. Starting from the standpoint of "I don't know" -- then studying
> phenomena with a great deal of skepticism and the refusal to accept things
> not evidenced -- will get you a good deal farther than any known alternative.
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summed up into
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> Aristotlean
> methods as the chief utility of scientific thought and all rational inquiry
> the realm of rational inquiry as the chief utility of scientific thought
"
I'm on the same page.
Whether we disagree that I have always been on the same page due to
misunderstandings or poorly worded and ambiguous, and sometimes even
erronous, statements, seems, to me anyway, just rehashing.
Once more, a fray into the night...
Scientific methodologies are a valid and, so far, the best way shown to date
in which we can better understand the physical universe.
Dave K.
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