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  1. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    And would not the taste testing be a search for differences?
  2. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    It's important because the question is previous to operational definitions. That sounds like the essence of scientific inquiry.
  3. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    Why can't I view from the paradigm of Science. Can't I think for myself?
  4. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    Imagine your self as the very first scientist. I can imagine you looking at two things and asking youself, "Why are these two things different?" This would seem to me to me to be the ultimate motivation. Without that, science is just a group of technitions.
  5. sandy whitelinger

    Do you fear for this world?

    According to a Facebook test, I fear mice. Seriously though, I think fear of falling is a very common fear.
  6. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    It comes from Herman Hesse's novel, "Narcissus and Goldmund." "Narcissus: 'Yes. You've hit the nail on the head. That's it: to you [Goldmund], differences are quite unimportant: to me, they are what matters most. I am a scholar by nature; science is my vocation. And science is, to quote your...
  7. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    ...then science is useless.
  8. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    How can you discern one item from another without noting it's differences?
  9. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    Are not cause and effect "differences?"
  10. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    You didn't answer the question about why you ran a current through two elements.
  11. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    And the only way to determine a plant from an animal is to compare the differences.
  12. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    I think it was more that the artist didn't give a crap about differences and could see all things as the same while the scientist wants to separate things into catagories.
  13. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    Isn't all of this is just speaking of the scientific method? Why would you put two elements together and run a current through them? Isn't it to see if something different happens. Isn't this the essence of scientific inquiry?
  14. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    It seems to me that you are discussing scientific method. Let me ask you this, if nothing were different how would science exist? How would you determine a plant from an animal?
  15. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    Aren't the mechanisms for Can you give me a simple example of this?
  16. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    Ultimately they determined it's a tree by comparing to things that aren't trees. Ie. It's not a vine or a fern or a rock etc.
  17. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    The scientist claimed the artist was different than him. The artist replied that the only difference was the scientist's desire to see differences.
  18. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    And how did they know it was a tree?
  19. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    And how is that accomplished?
  20. sandy whitelinger

    The Essence of Science

    And how do you establish intersubjective verifiability?
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