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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/06/02
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Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote in article
<dewar.865041126@merv>...
> <<Science, be it physics, chemistry, biology or whatever, is an attempt
to
> discover the laws and principles which govern the existence of "things".
> "Things" can be natural phenomena or a phenomenon exhibiting certain
> behaviour which is defineable at whatever level. It's basically an
> attempt to explain the way things, any things, work.
> >>
> 
> I object to this solution. It smacks of searching for Truth with a 
> capital T. Science is about constructing theories that are consistent
> with observations, and which have the capability of predicting the
> outcome of observations not yet made. 
> 
> "*the* way things work"
> 
> no
> 
> you are looking for *a* theory, not *the* theory!


This brings the theory of multiple realities into play. A concept I think
most people find a bit hard to grasp (or swallow or whatever [maybe grasp
in one universe and swallow in another?]). 

Nick ;-)