RE: Against Fundamentalism!

From: Lee Corbin <lcorbin.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:27:12 -0700

It's perfectly clear to me which of the two is more important: prediction
or explanation?

Now that I have been self-liberated from fear of circularity,
it's clear that: each is more important than the other!

Lee

P.S. Someone pointed out to me off-list that I was far from the
first to have had this epiphany about circular reasoning:

   "However, I think Bruno already has this idea.

   "Hence a Reality, yes. But not necessarily a
   physical reality. Here is the logical dependence:

   NUMBERS -> "MACHINE DREAMS" -> PHYSICAL -> HUMANS -> PHYSICS -> NUMBERS.
      --- Bruno Marchal"
Received on Tue Jun 07 2005 - 02:26:04 PDT