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To get primitive... Science translates observation into abstraction. (That's a big leap. And yes, one could make one's own observation. But nobody has the time
by swayvil 2y ago
To get primitive...
Science translates observation into abstraction. (That's a big leap. And yes, one could make one's own observation. But nobody has the time for that.)
But is it a good abstraction? (And then we have all these methods for ensuring that.)
Also, why this implicit preference for abstraction? (Yes there's an upside. But consider the downside.)
- asdff 2y agoEverything we experience is abstraction
- swayvil 2y agoBy abstraction I mean a contrivance of symbols (ie things to which meaning is assigned). Be those symbols ideas, words, patterns of magnetized dots or whatever. Sight, sound, taste, etc are not that. (I suppose even words are not necessarily symbols. I mean, if you don't assign meaning, if you don't interpret it that way, then a word is just a unique pattern of squiggles)