Aug
5
Here’s the Comment from Noveseidue, submitted on 2010/06/04 at 2:30pm -
As Spinoza says, ” …science which does not consist in convictions based on reasons but in immediate union with the thing itself…” This means only that the foundation of science is based upon an immediate union and not upon a convinction. If science is intuitive or not is not the case. Maturing a convinction is possible only through an immediate union with what has been proven being the first axiom. The Immediate stands for : ” without the mediation of what is imperfect” in order to be in contact with the real nature of things as they are in themselves
My Response – Sory for such a late reply to your comments. My server buried them in spam and after going through 84 possible spams, I discovered what you said. Particularly, “If science is intuitive or not is not the case…” Wittgenstein said: “Intuition is an unnecessary shuffle.” I am not talking abut intuition but rather what the ancient Greeks called, “demonstation.” (See p. 40 in my recent post, ‘Bud The Brain Explores Existence.” I appreciate your visit to my blog. I shall visit yours. Dick
Nov
27
We live in a big universe. It is getting bigger everyday.
We live in a big universe. It is getting bigger everyday.
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But the universe is only about a fourth of the size of the dark matter and energy that surrounds it. Nobody knows if that is all there is. We did not even know about dark matter and energy till recently. Our planet is small.
Mar
27
Stress disease in soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, was recently addressed in a two-part CBS television series called, ‘Mind Battles.’ . While well-intentioned, the program suffered from the two fallacies that usually occur in discussions on stress disease; 1) that it is a mental health issue and 2) that only a percentage of front-line workers have it.
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