source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:20:35 -0800 Subject: Re: science and such From: Gary Morrison -------------------- Begin Original Message -------------------- "science can make "obvious" conclusions based only upon a given set of predefined "givens". It is these "givens" that the mystic defines!" -------------------- End Original Message -------------------- I would agree with that up to a point at least. What we accept as axiomatic truths science is based upon are, almost always, readily apparent and consistently agreed upon by all humans, so there's not much mystery in them. But it's certainly true that, since the axia, by definition of "axiom", cannot be proven, you could perhaps attribute a mystic dimension to them. And it's also certainly true that science itself has often required us to reexamine these axia, a recent example being the relative nature of time and space. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:27 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA07627; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:27:08 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA07628 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id AAA03425; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:25:34 -0800 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:25:34 -0800 Message-Id: <199703210321_MC2-12E6-AB9B@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu