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From: hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen)
Subject: Re: Heidegger
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In article <DsF74o.6wB@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu>,
David Swanson <dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu> wrote:

[...]

>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

Wow. I didn't know the leaning tower even had professorships!

>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

Neglecting, of course, current supposition that Galileo ever did the
experiment at all. 

>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.

If he didn't actually DO the experiment, this story becomes nonsense.
So the question is, did he really do teh experiment? Or was it jsut a
gedankenexperiment?

>"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

I guess Heidegger assumed he really did the experiment.



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