Re: Models. predictions, physicallity, and observations

From: AllYou! (idaman_at_conversent.net)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:49:46 -0500

<reany@asu.edu> wrote in message
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>
> AllYou! wrote:
> > "jem" <xxx@xxx.xxx> wrote in message
> news:LpEVd.92183$bu.70873@fed1read06...
> [snip]
> >
> > I beg to differ. I've given detailed explanations here over the last
> few months that I
> > believe that all we can do is to build models based upon what we
> observe.
>
> Would you please explain this statement to me.

I've done this for you many times. The short version is that concepts like truth, know,
real, and others have no relevance in physics. All we have are perceptions of that which
we observe, and an assumption that this has some relationship to nature. As a result, all
we can do is build one huge model of all that we observe. That model consists of
innumerable theories of varying reliability. Theories are prediction of what we'll
observe under specific conditions.

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