************* The following message is relayed to you by [email protected] ************ David wrote: "I learned a long time ago, to believe nothing, that the function of believing is only that of the intellectually challenged, that the truth is not determined by authority, that nothing is true unless it is proven to be true, that most of every thing I hear and read is false; and less than half of what I see is true".
Dennis wrote: "It is not necessary to believe the theory before the practical exercises will work for you; just hold it as a possibility, that is all. Even the fact that the practical works doesn’t make the theory right, for there’s a number of possible theories from which the practical could be derived. However, until such time as practical derived from theory is found not to work it is safe to regard the theory as useful. No more can be said of any theory. Also, its’ rightness or wrongness depends on how well it explains natural law, not what people think about it. I know of no applications where this theory falls short of explaining observed phenomena. However, I’ll be the first to applaud any being who can explain all the facts with a simpler theory from which even more workable practical exercises can be derived. (Occam was an old friend of mine.)" _______________________________________________ Trom mailing list [email protected] http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom
