not quite Father Inire's mirrors . . .

Jeff Wilson · 09 Jun 2011, 05:33 · from 2011-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:33:06 -0500
Subject: (urth) not quite Father Inire's mirrors . . .
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On 6/8/2011 4:17 PM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> but the idea I have from the current and not-so-current panorama is that
> there isn't a single established theory that hasn't big holes in it -
> meaning that even as they are useful for Technological Progress, one
> shouldn't be completely shackled to their Fundamental Implications.

I'm not sure what you mean here. People educated in actual science from 
the first half of the 20th century later are aware that knowledge of the 
physical world is limited by the physical laws of observation, and that 
comprehension itself is limited by the incomplete nature of logical 
contemplation.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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