What is physics? Really. (Kent, you\'ll appreciate...) (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, August 13, 2011, 17:01 (4830 days ago) @ broken_cynic

I don't disagree with too much that you've said here, but I don't have any particular response because you read it from an ENTIRELY different perspective than I did. I'm even more curious who his intended audience was now, as that would go a long way toward guessing which of us understood him better. (Not that it is especially important to determine that.)-Of course its an entirely different perspective--I read it from MY perspective! -I don't try to guess what an author's audience is. I realize you will write for different audiences, but I don't really believe in that. Write at a level that will force people to rise. I interpreted this guy as essentially trying to write off his own discipline as seeking truth and failing. No. That's philosophy. Science builds models. Philosophy determines truth. And each of us are equal parts epistemologist & metaphysician.-I've prodded you to read Nietzsche a bit, much of that reason is that one thing that he's responsible for is creating perspectivism within philosophy. A criticism he had early on was that each school essentially took a series of dogmatic truths which then only resulted in an incomplete system. (Of some amazement, I just realized the only ancient philosopher he never had negativity for was Aristotle. I need to explore that...) Inside of his books, he implicitly (and in one place explicitly) argues that any topic needs to be explored internally AND externally. (Esotericism and Exotericism) If a truth exists, it lies somewhere in between the boundaries of competing systems.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"