pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on sun 24 aug 03
demonstrations...
Hi Susan,
To 'answer' your Question...
I should think, speaking (if, as a layman,) 'Scientificly',
which is to say, in a manner as honors Common Sense, one may
locate, identify and examine the 'variables'...
The facility of any Algebra, or method, lay in the values
assigned to, and relations of, the elements of the equation
one wishes to demonstrate.
Too...descriptions may not necessarily be asked to be or
serve AS 'explainations' and allways it behooves up to be
careful with that.
One may do and do well by intuition or instinct, things as
offer a serious challange to 'explain' in terms other than
some description of some of the elements of the
experience...sometimes that is all we have or will have.
But to allow Reason to stretch it's legs...if we do not know
what the variables are, if we are careless or indifferent in
an identification of them, if we refute they should matter
anyway, if we confuse 'this' for 'that'...if we wish to try
an be telling the Subject 'what-to-do', if we do not respect
the variables and qualifiers, the equation (result) suffers,
or is little more than an insult or violence to the
(otherwise) Subject, and to our (thence) pretenses of doing
something else than that.
Too..there are many things for which knowledge or facility
may exist, where the conditions themselves of or for
something to be 'demonstrated', may not themselves be
artificially made to stand still or to be conveniently
replicated.
One may wish to study 'Tornados'...or Volcanoes, or
'Whales', or aspects of ecosystems...one may wish to stude
'Love'...and one must go to them to do so, one may not
replicate their occasion in a Labratory, or, at least not
very well...less so, very thoroughly...
So too much else...
Or by degree...all 'else'...
The larger body and import of 'science' has long since
become a spoiled, jealous child of 'Reason', and no friend
to it, but in the incidental occasion when it may suit it's
petty tyrranies to appear to do so.
Once Science became a 'profession' it became a whore.
Like so much else...
The Science done by Amateurs was and often remains very
elegant, sincere, authentic, a devotion and occupation of
affection and humility and interest IN the Subject...the
thrilling sense as may attand the increase in one's
appreciation or skill in 'Model-Making'...to ,ake Models, to
make 'Maps' to account for things, to see relations of
things and see into them...the whole Romance and Adventure
and Respect...
I love all that so much...
And none of that is needing excuses as for anyone to say,
"oh! well...'they' are only 'human'..."
Does it?
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Setley"
> You left out the most important one: "If this is
replicable, how can we use
> it to help more sick people?"
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