From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers Date: 1997/06/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 245684138 Distribution: world References: <5m57nu$7si@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <5mcp5o$ei7$3@news.cc.ucf.edu> <5md1fl$9f4@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <5mmvgj$61k@squire.cen.brad.ac.uk> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > < 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. It is worth pointing out though, that this sort of view _only_ came about around 60-70 years ago and can be pinned squarely on the back of Bohr. The notion of "complimentarity" was the birth of this sort of view in physics (and it seems to have "infected" other branches as time went along) in an attempt to _somehow_ come to grips with the epistemological problems of the "quantum fix". /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com