I dont agree completely with the allegory > Newton compared a scientist to a child playing with shells > on the ocean shore. > -Shells represent concepts and theories. > -Ocean represents the unknown Marvelous wherefrom the > Shells had emerged and new ones will turn up.
I do believe the Ocean is represented in the shells. Ocean may be not there, but the shell will trace it entirely. That is what concepts and theories do. The gap is not bridgeable, but the gap istself is that trace. A key word is absence. All sciences and knowledge methods, even alternative, magic, religious, etc.., look into objects which point to somewhere else, Oceans in the end. Finally, although important IMO, Oceans, or the unknow, always and in all cases ends (all knowledge does) in the space above us. We will find ourselves, justifying knowledge, relating to outer space "above" us. Say Stars for short. This is not metaphysics, I'm pointing a fact. > Georges. > ============== --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
