fresco wrote:Portal,
You can't cut a knife with a knife.
(O.K. you can cut a diamond with a "harder" diamond but I think you get the drift)
Ultimately you have to examine what is meant by "explanation" and this often comes down to "prediction", but not without raising major epistemological issues including the "sociology of knowledge" and the "status of time" (re prediction since time has no "physical reality").....
All this is called trying to think outside the box.
No, don't get me wrong. I like that you think outside the box. It's good for your brain to see things from a different perspective. I am just baffled that you do it all the time. You live outside the box. There is no box.
That makes you really interesting to talk to, I just didn't know how you did it. Now I think I understand - that's where your training is - which means you have a tremendous knowledge depth in the knowledge of not knowing *grin.*
You can't cut a knife with a knife but you can cut a knife with another knife. But I think I see what you mean. You cannot dissect logic with logic. I still don't think I agree with it though - I can describe logic and see what it does and how it works - because I am not logic. I am an outsider who can use logic.
You're right, we do explain then come up with theories in order to predict (test). But this knowledge assumption is why we have the internet, cars, and rocketships. Surely those things wouldn't work if this assumption was incorrect.
Iv'e always had trouble with the concept of time. I'm a real physical person - I like to see and touch and hear things, you know (no sexual jokes, please.) I will hold off on a discussion about time until I have time to read the steven hawking books I got for my birthday.
