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- From: stark@dwovax.enet.dec.com (Todd I. Stark)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: More boring ki/qi/chi & science
- Summary: My optimum outcome, in terms of mutual understanding ...
- Message-ID: <1ha63pINNhop@usenet.pa.dec.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:35:42 GMT
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- schan@birch.srg.af.mil (Stephen Chan x4485) writes...
-
- > You see, you still don't see the focal point of my arguments. You are
- >still defending this abstract ideal of SCIENCE, when my argument rests on how
- >you can't seperate science from the scientists, and that scientists (like
- >other people) suffer from bias, but they can use the concepts and language of
- >science to mask their own biases.
-
- You're tilting at windmills, Stephen, the biases are already well known by
- all of us.
-
- The issue is that the biased aspect of the cultural process in no way
- invalidates what is accomplished, nor is it going to invalidate thousands of
- years of proud tradition built up around the current expression of
- logic and mathematics.
-
- The optimal outcome, imo, is that you'll eventually learn why some Western
- Philosophers are so proud of their tradition and so interested in
- preserving its essential principles.
-
- And that the limitations of logical-mathematical descriptions of reality
- will become better understood, and other ways of organizing experience
- (like Qi) will be better appreciated by some of those cynical folks you think
- are so unfairly biased.
-
- And yes, you're right, formal logic and abstract mathematics have little
- direct relation in most cases to the skills we use to live our daily
- lives.
-
- > Stephen
- >--
- > Stephen Chan
- > uunet!srg!schan or uunet!srg!schan@uunet.uu.net
-
- kind regards,
-
- todd
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