Bill Wald:
>I stole this from science-week. (scienceweek,com)
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>Theoretical particle physics and theoretical cosmology appear to
>lie at two extremes of human thought, but in fact they have much
>that binds them together. In both cases, the work of the
>theoretician is essentially to pose the same question: What set
>of assumptions concerning the real world, subject to appropriate
>quantitative analytic methods, will yield quantitative
>predictions in accord with observations of the real world?
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>Does not this question seperate science from philosophy?
yes, in that science must necessarily reference back to (directly or
indirectly) observable nature. I think philosophy is more like mathematics,
in that it *may* reference back to the natural world, but need not.
Susan
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