Proposing a Working Hypothesis

From: Gil Lawton (gillawton_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 02/23/05

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    To all the NG, let me offer a hypothesis for
    thought and discussion:

    Pure mathematics, on the one hand, and pure
    empirical observation, measurement and
    manipulation, on the other, are interdependent
    in that, to any empirical application
    mathematics can only introduce logical
    possibilities, while empirical testing can only
    rule some of them out. At any given time,
    questions and answers that satisfy only the
    requirements of the one of these, and not of the
    other, serve no cause but to perturb the
    prevailing pool of human ignorance; while
    questions and answers fitting the requirements
    of BOTH -- a cooperation possible only in
    absence of political motives -- can derive
    remainders capable of pushing outward the bars of
    ontological and epistemic limits that
    hinder us all.

    g

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