> On 22 Nov 2019, at 09:09, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List > <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Well... maybe when you are a 50 years old scientist, you can say that, but > this is not the spirit in which science is teached to children or popularized > to laymen. The spirit of science popularization is that it gives us the > truth, and we should obey or die. If scientists are such moral people, then > why they don't tell to their students in the first class of their course that > they will only present to them a model ? Instead, they jump right in: "Space > is such-and-such, time is such-and-such.". I never heard any professor of > mine telling us that they are only presenting us models.
Some do, but are rare. The problem is the implicit confusion between physics and metaphysics/theology make by the weak-materialist (the belief in some irreducible matter). In physics that is not important, like the switch to instrumentalism often made illustrate, but in metaphysics/theology, that distinction is crucial. Bruno > > On Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:23:27 UTC+2, Brent wrote: > The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they > mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with > the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed > phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and > precisely that it is expected to work. > --—John von Neumann > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/0820104a-969a-45d5-989e-36c6ed0e6d29%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/0820104a-969a-45d5-989e-36c6ed0e6d29%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2CB891C8-C9E4-479A-9D2C-FD3A70E4846D%40ulb.ac.be.
