This place sure goes in "spurts"

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:31:16 -0500
"Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Scientific
> discovery is reproducible, even by those who do not believe, just as
> we each and all must obey the law of gravity even if we don't agree
> with it and vote for its repeal.

Absolutely true - but the criterion  "reproducible" is only one of
many (very useful, I hasten to add), and science is actually an
outgrowth of philosophy too. That's what the Shakespearean
usage means in the famous "More things in heaven and earth than are
dreamt of in your philosophy" quote. More fully, from that era it would
have been "natural philosophy".

I'm kind of being the Devil's Advocate to an extent, you realise...
Speaking of irony...

Peter

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