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Originally Posted by Lloyd Gillespie "Wisdom is intuitive reason combined with scientific knowledge." Aristotle
"First principles are products of intuitive reason." Aristotle |
Aristotle was a good philosopher. But I say, hasn't that fallen? I mean, science has deconstructed the road through which our cars, the cars of philosophers like us, were going through. I mean, nowadays physics has lost it's sense. There is no sense in a physics of un-dimensional particles existing and interacting, and there is no sense in string theory. Physics had sense until the 1920s or so, but not further. What some physicists are trying, at least in these forums, is to find out the basis of physics, to give a logic to those 'first principles taken from intuitive reason', they want to un-intuitivize them. Einstein did part of it, by explaining space-time, explaing real gravity, and explaining mass and energy. But there is more. The thing is, that before we used to discuss between empiric axioms and rational axioms. Axiom is just a propert terminology, or at least the mathematical one, to 'first principles taken from intuitive reason'. Now we advanced from that discussion between Descartes and Hume, Locke and Lebinitz, Hobbes and Spinoza. And this is how the 20th century philosophy emerged; they stopped discussing about principles, and they started to discuss about derivations; Inductive and deductive, neccesary and contingent, logical and metaphysical... I do agree that a terrible problem rises with this. This is why I try to solve the whole problem. But if we go back to axioms, we will be repeating a path through which we ahve already gone. And there is no way to go through that path and not fall down the cleft to which it leads. I want to find something, aristotle is right, but maybe the interpretation we've given to those two qutoes isn't the appropiate one.