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- From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.skeptic,alt.paranormal,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,rec.arts.startrek.tech
- Subject: Re: New Physics, Healing, Paranormal
- Followup-To: sci.skeptic
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 18:32:55 GMT
- Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- References: <C1GEpL.4H7@well.sf.ca.us> <C1H02x.K38@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1993Jan27.035336.6911@Princeton.EDU> <-xq3+jr@rpi.edu>
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- I set Followup to sci.skeptic.
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- In article <-xq3+jr@rpi.edu>, petitc@nuge112.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
- > As for all the ESP info---consider this. There are many urban legends which
- >involve ESP as 'saving the day' Now, in order for ESP not to exist, EVERY ONE
- >of those stories must have either an alternate explaination or be totally false
- >. But, if even one has no such explaination, and is somewhat true, then ESP
- >exists in some form.
-
- Yes, and in order for Santa Claus not to exist, EVERY ONE of the Santa Clauses
- you see on the streets at the end of the year must be an imposter. But if
- even one of them is for real...
-
- (To avoid being misunderstood *again* by a certain person with an agenda:
- No, I don't want to compare Santa and PSI, I only want to show that the
- argument above is less than impressive. But at least it is new to me,
- contrary to the old chestnut below.)
-
- > Just remember---Relativity wasn't believed to exist either, until someone
- >thought of how to prove its existence.
-
- --
- thomas kettenring, 3 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
- Philosophy is the art of drawing conclusions from definitions that have been
- chosen so that one can draw the conclusions one would like to get.
- It immediately follows that philosophy is silly.
-