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Re: Stop using calories?



We seek not truth; we seek usefullness, both empirical and conceptual.
Our method is the conception, testing and application of models of
reality. We cast these models in terms which we have ceased to question,
not because we understand them any better, but only because they have
become familiar and because they are all that we have.

I agree and all the more reason not to treat them as models beyond question
in our teaching because our students can and do take a different meaning
for them than expressed above if we _do_ present them as beyond question.

Dewey

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Dewey I. Dykstra, Jr. Phone: (208)385-3105
Professor of Physics Dept: (208)385-3775
Department of Physics/MCF421/418 Fax: (208)385-4330
Boise State University dykstrad@bsumail.idbsu.edu
1910 University Drive Boise Highlanders
Boise, ID 83725-1570 novice piper

"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
"Don't mistake your watermelon for the universe." --K. Amdahl in
There Are No Electrons, 1991.
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