Hi Fil,
OK, so are you saying that it is possible for models to be crisply described external to the human mind? And therefore they can be seen as objective?
teena
> On 4 Jan 2016, at 12:40 pm, Filippo Salustri <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Teena,
> No, of course not. They were developed, over time, by people. As such
> they're "models" (imperfect representations of other things), but they
> represent phenomena that exist. And because the models are crisply
> described external to the human mind, they are objective entities.
>
> \V/_ /fas
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> *Prof. Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.*
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> On 3 January 2016 at 20:16, Teena Clerke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hi Fil,
>>
>> Are you saying that tests/methods/conditions/conclusions were drawn by ‘no
>> one’?
>>
>> cheers, teena
>>
>>
>>> Put another way: no one "decided." All the tests/methods/conditions are
>>> conclusions drawn from research on the subject. That's what makes it
>>> objective.
>>
>>
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