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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Interpretation of Nature
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The rationalistic aproach to nature is useless ;
to study nature one must proceed from facts by the use of methods of interference.
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Inferences should be checked by experiments ;
reflection and observation should supplement each other in empirical inquiry.
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By acts of interpretation one succeds in becoming more than a mere observer of nature ;
by drawing general conclusions from the order of things one arrives at an understanding of the world's order.
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There is one causal principle operative in the world,
but there are numerous elements,
divisible into molecules themselves indivisible.
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Experimental physics is the basis of all true knowledge.
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The rationalistic aproach to nature is useless ;
to study nature one must proceed from facts by the use of methods of interference.
..
Inferences should be checked by experiments ;
reflection and observation should supplement each other in empirical inquiry.
..
By acts of interpretation one succeds in becoming more than a mere observer of nature ;
by drawing general conclusions from the order of things one arrives at an understanding of the world's order.
..
There is one causal principle operative in the world,
but there are numerous elements,
divisible into molecules themselves indivisible.
..
Experimental physics is the basis of all true knowledge.
..
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