I meant the following note to go out to the whole mailing list as
well as to Jay Hanson, but somehow I did not accomplish that
in my pre-dawn state this morning....
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. wrote:
>
> Jay Hanson wrote:
> >
> > From: Tom Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > >>There are NO known exceptions to the laws of
> > >>thermodynamics. One might as well expect to
> > >>repeal gravity.
> > >
> > >There are, however, plenty of known instances where "laws" are invoked to
> > >explain events that they don't cover.
> >
> > All matter and energy in the known universe are subject
> > to the laws of thermodynamics. As far as we know, they
> > cover everything -- no exceptions.
> >
> > There are really only two kinds of knowledge:
> >
> > #1. Empirical (i.e., scientific method).
> >
> > #2. Revelation.
> >
> > I only study #1. I can invent my own #2. <G>
> >
> > Jay
>
> No, there are at least 3 kinds of knowledge, and Jurgen Habermas
> describes what I am here referring to as the third kind, in its
> relation to the first kind (laws of empirical, esp.
> "social" science) clearly:
>
> "Information about lawlike connections sets off a
> process of reflection in the consciousness of those
> whom the laws are about. Thus the level of unreflected
> consciousness, which is one of the initial conditions
> of such laws, can be transformed. Of course...a critically
> mediated knowledge of laws cannot through
> reflection alone render a law itself inoperative,
> but it can render it inapplicable." (Jurgen Habermas,
> KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN INTEREST, Beacon Press, Boston, 1971, p. 310)
>
> I propose that this observation is the key to the
> overcoming of the whole debate about "free will", etc.
>
> \brad mccormick
>
> --
> Mankind is not the master of all the stuff that exists, but
> Everyman (woman, child) is a judge of the world.
>
> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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