Hi Akshay, Bo On Jan 8, 2008, at 7:31 AM, Akshay Peshwe wrote:
> By gravity we either mean the supposed objectively existing > (independent of > our observations, &c.) law or our understanding of it. The law, whose > objectivity is hypothetical/based on inference, therefore did exist > before > our understanding of it. Within the whole logical system that we call > gravity, it is indeed true that gravity existed before our > knowledge of it, > because the fundamental assumption of science is that there is a > reality > independent of our observations. Steve: I agree that this is an assumption of scientific thought. In the MOQ, saying that there is a reality independent of our observations is an assumption that is useful to make most of the time (it falls apart on the subatomic level). Bo, if I understand you correctly, I think you would say that SOM science is unaware of this as an assumption it makes. SOMists don't actually make the assumption. It is their reality. Is that it? > This has parallels to the famous question: > does the tree exist when nobody is looking at it? > RMP in LC: The idealist answer is, “What tree?” The questioner has posited a hypothetical tree and then asks, “What will this hypothetical tree do?” This is like asking, “If pigs could fly how high would they go?” Who knows? Hypothetical trees and pigs can do almost anything. Regards, Steve Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
