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Re: Hubris of physicists


On Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:10:25 -0600 "Dewey Dykstra, Jr."
<dykstrad@varney.idbsu.edu> writes:

It's usually a good idea to beware anyone with an admitted
agenda.
It's an even better idea to be aware of hidden agendas when
reading
research results or even popularizations.

George Spagna Wed, 23 Jul 1997 07:55:41 -0400

Is possible _not_ to have some kind of agenda?

Dewey

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"Physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and
are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external
world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
1938
But, mathematical concepts are free creations of the human mind too. The
preference of the "human mind" for certain concepts might account for the
isomorphism between the external world and mathematics, which belongs to
the ideals but is under scrutiny by the same minds as scrutinize the
universe. I feel very comfortable with this answer to the age-old
problem: "Why does math work in physics?" - The Amateur
"Don't mistake your watermelon for the universe." --K. Amdahl in
There Are No Electrons, 1991.
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