Subject: Re: Logic deemed illogical! Area man protests.
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 09 2000 - 13:53:55 EST
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Scottie Bowman wrote:
: Of course, Sean. But you must remember that is not
: the universe Matt inhabits.
Phrenology, like bloodletting before it, once seemed like a pretty good
idea. But as far as know at the moment, neither of them is sound
science. Does this mean we're closer now to understanding how things work
in our universe than we were in centuries past? Perhaps.
But it doesn't mean that our way of construing reality is the only
way. It's constructed. Discovered? Nietszche made the analogy that you
can hide a ball behind a bush and then go behind the bush, retrieve the
ball, and announce "look! a ball!", but that that doesn't mean you've
discovered a ball behind a bush. Whether we realize it or not, our system
of seeing reality has already hidden everything we will ever find.
I'm not arguing that we see part of a reality. I'm arguing that we see,
and that "reality" isn't necessarily something that can be seen, or that
is only seen, or that has to be seen. We're stuck with seeing as our
method of understanding Everything. Everything we discover has to be
construable in our tools for seeing. Everything we know has to fit into
the shapes we have for knowing it. But there is no reason that the shapes
we have for knowing things are "right."
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu
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