Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?
William Edward Woody (woody@alumni.caltech.edu)
Tue, 13 Aug 1996 12:16:52 -0700
ERIC! Hey!
brunner@mandrake.think.com (Eric Brunner) wrote:
> : bold new challenge. If Science truly wants to defeat the most worthless
> : and dangerous superstitions, it is going to have to open itself to good
> : criticism. It cannot take as a given its own unbiased nature. It must
> : listen to the questions and work towards providing acceptable answers.
>
> Personally, I'm waiting on the advocates of High Scientism to explain the
> work of a mathematician... Kurt Godel...
>
> I can wait, of course, I'm not a strict constructionist (mathematically
> speaking that is).
I thought I saw a comment about Godel go by. Something to the effect
that Godel's results only apply to abstract mathemathematical systems,
as opposed to being a more generalizable result.
But that's okay; I still like the fact that most people explain away
the uncertainty of Quantum Mechanical systems by saying "well, yeah;
God plays dice with the universe. But at least he plays dice
_predictably._"
- Bill
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