In your view, what is the status of the world external to the
>knower?
and Eva answers,
>What about the alternative ecological
>paradigm where Scientist and World are mutually internal as different-scale
>components of the global system. Is our reality less real if we are always
>entangled in its particularities, if even science is a social practice?
>Even so the Reality running straight through us has ways of rather rudely
>correcting erroneous conjectures... in time.
And I am wondering, Bill, what you make of Eva's answer.
And if it is problematic for you, how so?
And I am wondering, Eva, how, in the service of teaching science
in the schools, one would introduce Scientist & World as different
scale components of a more global system. SHOULD one? Doesn't
the notion of "empirical" serve some useful function here?
Just wondering...
Judith
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