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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Scientific Epistomology, or "Social Text" Editors Make Ted
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In article <4p681i$8ec@news.ox.ac.uk>
patrick@gryphon.psych.ox.ac.uk (Patrick Juola) writes:

> 
> Except that he won't.  Because the data will still be the same, and he'll
> still be capable of recieving all the data that we are capable of recieving,
> simply by (re)constructing our equipment.
> 
> Pendulums will still swing 60,000 years from now.  Our measuring technology
> or physics may be such that the notion that a pendulum's swing marks
> a constant time seems a ludicrous approximation -- but he can still construct
> the same sort of pendulum that Gallileo built.
> 
>         Patrick


For that matter, you could spend your time worshipping fire.


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.
