RE: virus: Faith, Logic and Purpose
Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Sat, 22 Nov 1997 19:02:17 -0000
> From: Wade T.Smith[SMTP:wade_smith@harvard.edu]
>
> >If you really disagree with that, then you
> >must think you have all the right questions
> >already, so perhaps you would share them
> >with us? :-)
>
> Yeah- it looks that way, don't it. Language will always be a problem.
> What I mean to say is that looking for answers _is_ the question, and
> that arriving at _questions_ is useless- the work occurs through
> finding
> answers.
>
Rubbish. Waffle, in fact. Without a well-formed question,
it is impossible to design an experiment to determine the
answer. Science is utterly dependant on the task of
developing good questions, which is philosophical.
> I suppose I am saying that there _are_ no questions. Ultimately. So,
> yes,
> I got a million of 'em.
>
> Then again, the simple 'why, how, who, when, what?' should suffice,
> followed by 'show me'.
>
More waffle.
> But then, although not a physicist, I am definitely on the side of
> 'it's
> all physics, anyway'.
>
No it's not. It's all turtles. All the way down. So there.
Robin