From: Steve Peterson (speterson@fast.net)
Date: Mon Jan 06 2003 - 16:11:30 GMT
Magnus, Matt, Glenn, all,
I like way Magnus organizes the sciences based on the static levels.
>Magnus:
> I like Pirsig's route. It says that science, the natural sciences that
> is, is not written in stone. The formulas and algorithms we hold for
> truths today may not be the only truth tomorrow or in a hundred years.
(Thus, none of them are really Truth.)
>
> Pirsig's route says that Newton was not an idiot although his theories
> of gravity is now not as true as they once where. The route also says
> that, for example, the speed of light might not be as absolute as
> Einstein claimed, etc.
>
> There is still a difference between the natural sciences and other,
> social sciences, humanities, etc. and that difference is clearly stated
> by the MoQ, loud and clear for those who have understood it.
>
> Natural sciences are more static, i.e. lower on the static ladder.
> Natural sciences explains the first level. So in that way, it's still a
> more basic science than other.
>
> Biology, zoology, etc. explains the second, biological level and so on.
>
> There's no need to be offended by the MoQ because it equals natural
> science and human science, because it doesn't. Not if you look carefully.
>
> Magnus
>
Steve:
As a high school science buff, I came to think that physics was the only
true science because all other knowledge must follow from the physical laws.
Through the MOQ I now understand that there are qualitative differences
between mechanics and biology and biology and anthropology, so it makes a
lot of sense to keep different sciences separate (e.g. natural, biological,
social). Biology could never be explained by physics and culture could
never be explained by biology.
Steve
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