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Postby Robert » June 9th, 2008, 7:58 pm

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Postby Stanley Anderson » June 9th, 2008, 8:12 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby Ben2747 » June 9th, 2008, 8:58 pm

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Postby Stanley Anderson » June 9th, 2008, 9:47 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby Ben2747 » June 9th, 2008, 10:38 pm

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Postby postodave » June 11th, 2008, 9:59 pm

Sounds a bit like Dr Johnson who kicked a stone with his foot and said: 'thus I refute Berkley'

Ben there's a lot of stuff I'd like to get back to especially Aquinas on the hypothetico-deductive method and I will and give you the reference. But here's what keeps striking me. When I read Polanyi's 'Personal Knowledge' or Feyarabend's 'Against Method' or Popper's 'The Logic of Scientific Discovery'. It is pretty clear to me that these are not science books in the ordinary sense. They are not books that could be classed as physics or biology or general science. Yet they are about science. Now you are either going to have to make up a word for them like meta-science or you just call them what most people would call them which is philosophy of science. Bacon's nova organum scientarium would with hindsight be put in the same class. Similarly if someone wants to argue using historical examples that history unfolds according to a certain pattern he will be writing philosophy of history not history. I don't see how this kind of distinction can be evaded.

On the application of philosophy to farming try this:
So I drew my sword and got ready
But the lamb ran away with the crown
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Postby Ben2747 » June 12th, 2008, 1:52 am

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Postby Lioba » June 12th, 2008, 6:51 am

Hi, Alecto!
I don´t know if you ever read H.C.Andersens fairytales. In one of them their their is a nice caricature of Kierkergaard´s. In German the Story isa titled "Die Galoschen des Glücks".The galoshs of fortune would be the word-by word- translation. The parrot is Kierkegaard. :toothy-grin:
Iustitia est ad alterum.
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Postby Robert » June 13th, 2008, 12:14 am

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Postby Ben2747 » June 13th, 2008, 12:21 am

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Postby Robert » June 13th, 2008, 1:19 am

Sorry to have went on about all of that. Its just that the current state of Philosophy concerns me.
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Postby Ben2747 » June 13th, 2008, 2:02 am

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Postby Robert » June 13th, 2008, 2:14 am

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Postby postodave » June 22nd, 2008, 4:57 pm

So I drew my sword and got ready
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