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Re: idealism vs materialism



----- Original Message -----
From: "John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: idealism vs materialism

There's a partly-unfortunate but partly-sensible
tendency on lists such as this for people to reply
only to the parts they disagree with. That's sensible
precisely because most of us agree most of the time,
and we wouldn't want the list flooded with "me too"
endorsements. The unfortunate part is that a casual
observer would overestimate the level of disagreement
by several orders of magnitude.

That I am doing right now. I agree with your post and with your position
about Feynman, but I disagree with the following:

... Physics has its own philosophy,
which is just as sophisticated and IMHO much more
sensible than the philosophies that philosophers
cook up...

Philosophers do not "cook up" their theories more then physicists do
with theirs. Philosophers have a habit to say sill things when they
speak about physics, and physicists have the same habit with regards
to philosophy.
I think the problem is little time for a serious study.

Best regards,

Paolo Cavallo - Italy