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What do you propose to overcome the discrepancy between the apparent 'fact' of the situation, and our inability to remove it from funtioning? It is necessary to leave the both theories of relativity. The reality is life in a border between the (growing) history and an unknowable, uncaused future. N...

Oh - The Philosophy of Science, if it is teching you what is reflected in your paper, is a misnomer. What is should be called is 'the Methodology of considering scientific discourse'. Philosophy of science would ask questions concerning the validity of science and how its modes might be incorrect (a...

I think pseudo-science is a good category for the sake that it points out malpractice, how science is not to be conducted! I also find the case of Calory/Caloric-theory to be one of great teaching, a bad example, although scientific-practice at the time, it has lost the battle versus the competitor...

What do you propose to overcome the discrepancy between the apparent 'fact' of the situation, and our inability to remove it from funtioning? " could it be to first ask how we come to an answer? or where we find it? and then continue on in that same way? for example, when we ask questions and ...

I realize that you are in class and have a rigorous schedule, but have you ever considered Jaques Lacan. He proposes three orders of reality:(generally defined they go:) the Symbolic: the world of things that can be known; 'of the object'. the Imaginary: the world of thoughts where things may not be...

What a concept. If we consider cross disciplines, such as with modern philosophy, we can see Slavoj Zizek says this is what we have now: a condition of 'too soon' and 'too late'. The result of knowing this condition leaves us cynical. The question then is how do we overcome this temporal duality? I ...