Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science
From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 03/20/05
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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:26:55 -0500
Albert Wagner wrote:
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> Neither mathematiker elitists nor their profession nor their language
> are protected by law. You and your private religion are fair game, just
> as you believe that theists are fair game. Your 'privileged' position
> in society is not merit based, but merely assumed by you.
I, personally, have no privileged place. On the other hand mathematics
has made modern physics and ALL of its technological entailments
possible. Our industrial and technological society has as one of it
pillars mathematics. Without mathematics there would be no physics.
Without physics there would be only crude technology. Certainly nothing
much beyond what the Romans and the Greeks had.
Mathematics is a necessary compenent of modern science.
Bob Kolker
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