Fw: senility velvet
Ok, this bizarreness showed up in my inbox this morning and I'm passing it on for your amusement. Ahem. Let's take a vote: spam, or not? You decide.
----- Original Message -----
From: Wilkins
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 9:28 AM
Subject: senility velvet
If it were, we could have basically stopped after the Greeks figured out a fair amount of geometry. But we shouldn't forget an equally important lesson, articulated most forcefully by Nietzsche: The health of a person and a people also depends vitally on the capacity to forget. If our only experience of the world is of an existent reality, such that something uncreated or destroyed is literally unimaginable, the superfluity of religion becomes very evident. In other words, a view of the universe from a materialist perspective at any given moment shows that everything in the univese is different in the sense of being distinct. The goal is not a description which is true or corresponds to the truth, or at least that is not the immediate goal. On the face of it, it might be surprising that the set of rotations of three space should itself look anything like three space. Every hypothesis, in essence, is a prediction about the future.
And certainly conjugating by a point is the same as conjugating by its antipodal point, since the minus signs will cancel eachother in the latter case.
in our society, the State. To some extent this seems to cut against the basic scientific impulse to simplify, to generalize, which is what a law or an equation generally does. Even a definite negative answer is preferable to none at all. The goal is not a description which is true or corresponds to the truth, or at least that is not the immediate goal. His country is overstretched, losing economic momentum, losing world leadership, and losing the philosophical plot.
However, he also thinks that theories are conventions and definitions of concepts, not true descriptions of physical phenomena based necessarily on experimental results.
It would seem to me that the branches of physics which are entirely theoretical are for practical purposes basically metaphysics. If it were, we could have basically stopped after the Greeks figured out a fair amount of geometry.
Every hypothesis, in essence, is a prediction about the future. Do this with every single point on the sphere, each point and its antipodal point meeting each other but meeting no other points.
To some extent this seems to cut against the basic scientific impulse to simplify, to generalize, which is what a law or an equation generally does. In other words, no matter what went wrong, the body of theories and assumptions that led to the hypothesis do not work as they now stand.
De filmpjes die ik getoond heb, kan je helaas niet opnieuw bekijken, maar vaak vind je goed fotomateriaal op de websites van de betrokken kunstenaars.
But we shouldn't forget an equally important lesson, articulated most forcefully by Nietzsche: The health of a person and a people also depends vitally on the capacity to forget. To which it was replied that of course time has an existence, as a social convention, a mental framework.
On the one hand, he makes interesting and insightful observations on all sorts of phenomena; on the other, he never really synthesizes those observations into a single, coherent argument.
America is running into the sand.
But the only way to determine whether it is simply a theory to fit the facts or whether it is truly generalizable is to test it against unknown facts via prediction.
Zoology and the like I think are, because hypothetical prediction inherently implies classification.
Research and development in the new art practice. If our only experience of the world is of an existent reality, such that something uncreated or destroyed is literally unimaginable, the superfluity of religion becomes very evident.
Thus, things will have to be changed until they produce accurate predictions. Forgetting is necessary to free ourselves from imperfectly understood "lessons of history," so that we can see the challenges ahead clearly, without preconceptions or prejudice. Nor is the notion that rape is bad an example of state coercion.
His country is overstretched, losing economic momentum, losing world leadership, and losing the philosophical plot. So, in a sense, the special orthognal matrices look like a sphere. To some extent this seems to cut against the basic scientific impulse to simplify, to generalize, which is what a law or an equation generally does.
To which it was replied that of course time has an existence, as a social convention, a mental framework. Thus, things will have to be changed until they produce accurate predictions.
It is for philosophy to show that there are no problems. But then he cannot for example enter his house.
posted by Emily Brown, moderator at 9:08 AM
0 comments
Print
Email
