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In article <4ot3st$iui@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
tobis@scram.ssec.wisc.edu (Michael Tobis) writes:

> 
> "E pur si muove."
> 
> Why don't you try reading something about Galileo?
> 
> G. de Santillana: _The Crime of Galileo_ , University of Chicago Press,
> 1955, is very nice. Or, speaking of German professors, maybe try
> J.L. Heilbron: _The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck as a
> Spokesman for German Physics_, University of California Press, 1986.
> 
> (Needless to say, these are in plain English. The content is sufficiently
> impressive as to make flaunting displays of erudition and obscurity
> quite superfluous.)
> 
> Try to get a grip on the essence of *lies*, and you may understand the
> necessity of taking "truth", in some meaningful sense, very seriously.
> Since you find the concept of "truth" distasteful, do you recognize
> the concept of "lying"? If so, how do you define it? If not, why should
> I listen to you?
> 
> I'll try to get this Heidegger essay.
> 
> mt

Ascola questo e ascolta bene, imbecile mio:
"Galileo did his experiment at the leaning tower of Pisa [so the story
goes], where he was professor of mathematics, in order to prove his
statement.  In it bodies of different weights did not arrive at
precisely the same time after having fallen from the tower, but the
difference in time was slight.  In spite of these differences and
therefore really AGAINST the evidence of experience, Galileo upheld his
proposition.  The witnesses to this experiment, however, became really
perplexed by the experiment and Galileo's upholding his view.  They
persisted the more obstinately in their former view.  By reason of this
experiment the opposition toward Galileo increased to such an extent
that he had to give up his professorship and leave Pisa.
"Both Galileo and his opponents saw the same 'fact.'  But they
interpreted the same fact differently and made the same happening
visible to themselves in different ways.  Indeed, what appeared for
them as the essential fact and truth was something different.  Both
thought something along with the same appearance but they thought
something different, not only about the single case, but fundamentally,
regarding the essence of a body and the nature of its motion."
Martin Heidegger
Hai capito qualcosa?  Perche' non porti queste parole ("buggiardo")
alla tua sorella la putana?  Perche' non pensi primo di parlare?

David

"Resistance to the proposition that the essence of truth is freedom is
based on preconceptions, the most obstinate of which is that freedom is
a property of man."  Martin Heidegger, "On the Essence of Truth," [Vom
Wesen der Wahrheit] translated by John Sallis, in "Basic Writings,"
(old version, 1977) p.126.
