RE: Scientific method proves order cannot exist w/o intelligence
January 21, 2010 at 1:15 am
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2010 at 1:59 am by chatpilot.)
Thanks Void and Adrian for the clarifications. You have both motivated me to study relativism as my next project I am very interested in this subject. But before I do this my preliminary concern with relativism at the outset,is that it seems to me that relativism suffers from being over descriptive. If that is the case then everything is relative to something ad infinitum.
For instance your interpretation of my simple example of tossing a ball up into the air.
Relative to the strength of gravity in your location (weak gravity may see the ball suspended or rising indefinitely).
Relative to how hard you throw the ball (you may throw it past the point of no return).
Relative to the composition of the ball (A ball who's average area/mass is lighter than air would float away from the source of gravity due to air currents).
All of your add ons in parenthesis except for the last one are all in the most mundane way impossibilities in our world as is evidenced by our everyday observation of throwing a ball up in the air. A ball with weight and mass (for instance a baseball) will not remain suspended or rising indefinitely, and no matter how hard you throw a ball it will not break free from Earths gravitational force. It is in this context that I would consider my example an absolute truth that anyone in the same ballpark as I could confirm by conducting the same experiment.
For instance your interpretation of my simple example of tossing a ball up into the air.
Relative to the strength of gravity in your location (weak gravity may see the ball suspended or rising indefinitely).
Relative to how hard you throw the ball (you may throw it past the point of no return).
Relative to the composition of the ball (A ball who's average area/mass is lighter than air would float away from the source of gravity due to air currents).
All of your add ons in parenthesis except for the last one are all in the most mundane way impossibilities in our world as is evidenced by our everyday observation of throwing a ball up in the air. A ball with weight and mass (for instance a baseball) will not remain suspended or rising indefinitely, and no matter how hard you throw a ball it will not break free from Earths gravitational force. It is in this context that I would consider my example an absolute truth that anyone in the same ballpark as I could confirm by conducting the same experiment.
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