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Old 30-November-2008, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Warren Platts View Post
The poor particle physicist, on the other hand, must of necessity be forever ignorant of the true nature of his or her chosen subject matter.
Actually, a more sensible (and accurate) way to phrase that is that a particle physicist needs not pretend there is an accessible "true nature" out there in the first place, which might emerge if he/she could just get a little more bias out of the experiment, or slightly more convincing rhetoric. Instead, the particle physicist knows exactly what it is possible to establish as true, and what it is not. I'd say that's a perfectly wonderful state of affairs-- especially for philosophers.
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