Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!labrea!decwrl!decvax!ucbvax!hoptoad!laura From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech,sci.physics Subject: Re: QM is not a theory (found in sci.physics) Message-ID: <2472@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 14:59:31 EDT Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2472 Posted: Mon Jul 20 14:59:31 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 00:44:01 EDT References: <651@sri-arpa.ARPA> <820@klipper.cs.vu.nl> Reply-To: laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 27 Xref: mnetor sci.philosophy.tech:272 sci.physics:1886 >In article <651@sri-arpa.ARPA> gould!proxftl!bill@seismo.CSS.GOV writes: > >First, philosophy: the essential parts of philosophy are metaphysics and >epistemology; they answer the questions of "what kind of universe do I live >in?" and "How do I know?", respectively. The answers to these questions >determine the other answers that a philosophy gives to the questions usually >associated with philosophy. In particular, these answers allow one to >distinguish between a potentially valid description of reality and a mere >statement about facts of reality. The former is a theory; the latter is a >model. I think that this gives philosophy too short an end of the stick. My current thought project is dividing human persuits into a quest for answers of the three questions ``What is Beauty'' ``What is Truth'' and ``What is Goodness''. ``What kind of universe do I live in and how do I know'' is fundamental to the Truth question, but does not (or at least not trivially) relate to the Goodness and Truth questions. -- (C) Copyright 1987 Laura Creighton - you may redistribute only if your recipients may. ``One must pay dearly for immortality: one has to die several times while alive.'' -- Nietzsche Laura Creighton ihnp4!hoptoad!laura utzoo!hoptoad!laura sun!hoptoad!laura