..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space

[malignd at aol.com]

All science is a set of metaphors?  I don't think that's true at all.



-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
To: malignd <malignd at aol.com>
Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 7:17 pm
Subject: Re: ..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space


It's that thing about metaphors. All science, like all other attempts
to explain the world, is a set of metaphors. They're always changing,
but we're impatient, want them to last.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:56 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> I don't think you can say that science has been "wrong"; again, the bomb.
>  Incomplete, certainly; that's the way science works.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
> To: P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 1:46 pm
> Subject: Re: ..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space
>
> Exactly what I was going to say. Those little matter spirit devils can be
> pretty
> mean. But I think Laura is not so much talking about their atoms reality
> but
> the degree to which we have  an accurate model /understanding. That is where
> science has been wrong or at lest incomplete, and where new data continues
> to
> confound or at least disturb the models we have.
> On Feb 9, 2012, at 5:58 PM, David Morris wrote:
>
>> They might just be really pissed-off matter-spirits...
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>>> doesn't the splitting and fusing of atoms to create bombs show that
>>> atoms
> are "real"?
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant

 
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