- From: Alexander Jerusalem <ajeru@vknn.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:37:58 +0000
- To: "Jon Hanna" <jon@spin.ie>, "'RDF-Interest'" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
At 13:58 12.12.2002 +0000, Jon Hanna wrote: > > Kant and some particle physicists claim that > > consciousness creates reality -- i.e., that > > their mathematical models ARE reality, and > > that experimental measurements are only > > approximations of that reality. I say that > > experimental measurements ARE reality, and > > mathematical models are only approximations > > of that reality. > >I prefer the idea of giving Kant, particle physicists, yourself and Ayn Rand >the tools they need to express their differing opinions about reality and >then let them battle it out rather than creating a tool out of a single view >of reality. I'm not a philosopher myself, but I've had many discussions with some of them about exactly this. And they argue (or rather some philosophical systems do so) that you cannot have a strict separation of form and content otherwise you would enter an infinite loop of meta layers.
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