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From: pete@wor-mein.UUCP (Pete Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Non-science not non-sense?
Message-ID: <1401@wor-mein.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 88 23:12:00 GMT
References: <GHH.88Jul16135559@confidence.princeton.edu> <536@buengc.BU.EDU> <573@white.gcm>
Reply-To: pete@wor-mein.UUCP (Pete Turner)
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In article <573@white.gcm> dc@white.UUCP (Dave Caswell) writes:
>
>Your stating something like that as the economy becomes more service-oriented
>that we will add other things (mysticism etc.) besides science as a basis
>for truth.  Your argument leaves a few questions unanswered.
>1) How can mysticism, occult, religion provide any basis for truth.
>2) Why is a service oriented economy any more likely to settle for
>   invalid means of asserting truth.
>

I hate to sound esoteric, but what is truth? And what does science have
to do with truth?

James Burke's BBC TV series, "The Day the Universe Changed", touched on
these issues.  If I understand him, he holds the view that science is a
means of devising a "map" to help you work with the world.  But I don't
believe that maps can encapsulate truth.  

Science seeks to devise better maps.

Truth is the realm of religion.


Pete