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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <782@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 14:41:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.782
Posted: Tue Oct  8 14:41:41 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Oct-85 21:23:41 EDT
References: <14600042@hpfcrs.UUCP> <14600048@hpfcrs.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Summary: 

In article <14600048@hpfcrs.UUCP> lief@hpfcla.UUCP writes:
>>
>You guys really didn't have to answer this!  But still I thought it was neat
>that you actually tried!  By asking these questions I was trying to convey
>the idea that science cannot answer all of man's questions -- instead one needs
>to look elsewhere for answers in many cases (for example, psychology would be
>a necessary field for answering matters of the brains, and in most cases the
>answers would only be models based on conjecture, not absolute truth.)  In
>other words, the "TOOLS OF PHYSICS" cannot be used for 100% of all answers.
>
	Well, I consider psychology to be a science, it certainly uses
the scientific method. A better example of the kind of question that
the scientific method cannot answer would be something like "What is
the purpose of existance(if any)?", since the answer depends on
factors beyind those observable by science.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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