Have you

by jr_macd

Posted to What Are You Reading? on 2002-04-24 16:34:00

Parent message is 172547
ever taken a class in epistomology? The theory of knowledge? It’s an interesting topic. Asks and attempts to answer all those problems, the brain the a vat problem which where I assume they got the idea for the Matrix. The fact that we can’t ever know for sure that the universe wasn’t created 3 seconds ago and all before was just pre-programmed into our brains. David Hume was the first one I know of that proclaimed science to be unprovable because it proceeds from the idea of induction, e.i. taking one example and generalizing it. Like assuming the Sun will rise tomorrow just because it did today and the day before and so on. Of course I’m simplyfying a bit because most of these questions have books on top of books written on them. And is science subjective? We already know that obervation impacts the oberved. There’s a not too long but very dense book called Reason Truth and History by Hillary Putnam on the general subject of science and truth and reality, and anotheg big book called Philosophical Explanations by Nozick that spends a lot of time on the brain in a vat theory. I could debate epistomology all day and night, it was one of my favorite classes in college.

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