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molly bloom
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Lundenwic
Oct 2001
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Originally posted by KrazyHorse
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But it isn't knowledge. Warranted belief perhaps, but not knowledge. |
Better than unwarranted belief. 
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it will all be thought foolish nonsense in a couple of hundred years |
No, it will be thought a very good second or third approximation.
Just like nobody with any sense thinks Newton or Faraday were fools... |
Is that Isaac Newton the alchemist and Michael Faraday the Sandemanian?
"Sir Arthur Eddington, in reviewing this book, says: "The science in which Newton seems to have been chiefly interested, and on which he spent most of his time was alchemy. He read widely and made innumerable experiments, entirely without fruit so far as we know."
One of his servants records: "He very rarely went to bed until two or three of the clock, sometimes not till five or six, lying about four or five hours, especially at springtime or autumn, at which time he used to employ about six weeks in his laboratory, the fire scarce going out night or day. What his aim might be I was unable to penetrate into." The answer is that Newton's experiments were concerned with nothing more or less than alchemy. (from Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored by A. Cockren)"
http://www.alchemylab.com/isaac_newton.htm
Faraday:
"As a Sandemanian Faraday would not accept that the book of nature is written in a language so removed from experience as the language of mathematics. Theories could be admired and used but to him they were more tinged with humanity than with the divine. Sandemanian suspicion of theology and mathematical abstraction suggested that those come between observers and the book of nature. This is why Faraday insisted on separating the discussion of religious from scientific matters. In a lecture given in 1854 in the presence of Prince Albert, he argued that their humanity makes all people-including scientists-'active promoters of error.' How, then, is scientific knowledge possible?
The Sandemanian element in his Christianity promised that, like the Bible, the book of nature would be open to anyone who sought to read it without prejudice."
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~hssdcg/Michael_Faraday.html
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