Epistemology Google Group

Re: [epistemology 10983] Stern Gerlach experiment and absurdities of modern physics

2009-11-15T18:02:04Z

============
Sorin:

==============
G:
Why modern? The Stern–Gerlach experiment was meant to test
the Bohr–Sommerfeld hypothesis.
Now, Bohr Model is prehistory.
It was succeeded by the Schroedinger function based QM, which
is history.
Modern quantum physics started with replacement of Schroedinger

Stern Gerlach experiment and absurdities of modern physics

2009-11-14T09:02:26Z

Stern Gerlach experiment and absurdities of modern physics

Stern and Gerlach experiment is one of the most representative
experiments in quantum mechanic. The experiment simplicity was
completed with a complicate and absurd quantum explanation.

A new ,,common sense” explanation for the experiment has been

Re: Claude Levi-Strauss dies

2009-11-12T11:18:27Z

I'll try to duck the shit storm of names that have hit GMeta's
metaphorical fan as I have not heard of any of them.
The thing that has pissed me off this week is the colonization by the
Christian right (tautology?) of the word "Enlightenment". This once
characterized the French Philosophes of the 18thC, in the 1960s, it

Re: [epistemology 10979] Re: Claude Levi-Strauss dies

2009-11-12T07:22:41Z

Hi Neil,
You throw names about like shit, trying to hit the fan. Why the hell
should one hear about Bourbaki sets? It's bullshit, like all failed
trials to found maths in discreteness, only more conceited.
Same for others, with exception of Bachelard, who came here astray
and whom you don't seem to understand.

Re: [epistemology 10973] Re: Claude Levi-Strauss dies

2009-11-11T22:04:37Z

Yes, Chazwin, there *is* that... and, I have also found *1:1
correspondence*within
*cultural systems boundedness* as it relates to Levi-S's treatment of *imagery
created, perceived realities, the inherent symbolism, together with the
symptomatic aspects of the continued dialogue* that ensues from those

Re: Claude Levi-Strauss dies

2009-11-11T21:36:03Z

I honestly suspect business schools were more radical 20 years ago
than the whole academy now. We are 100 years after Veblen though and
much more distanced from Nietzsche's 'On Truth and Lies in a Moral
Sense' - which he kept secret. Bachelard is under-used here in the
'rupture tradition'. I'd guess none of the kind of people you

Re: Claude Levi-Strauss dies

2009-11-11T12:18:50Z

Okay let us accept that F might have got his BA on the basis that they
fail no one these days. I was wrong. However, given the state of the
establishment's grip on the balls of free-thinking and radical, new
and novel ideas F would not now have been given a position of power
inside a university. Neither would Chomsky or any thinker whose urge

Re: Claude Levi-Strauss dies

2009-11-11T10:35:54Z

Foucault would no doubt have gleaned his BA by using those buses on
which French radicals gave out course credits saying the credits are
real but the university imaginary. In my class I would have responded
by offering you the MA there and then as it's so damned obvious we
never fail anyone. You would be able to rejoin the course at any time

Re: Claude Levi-Strauss dies

2009-11-10T18:07:07Z

Yeah I followed you recommendation to go there - thanks.
I've been busy telling idiot Americans the difference between a rights
based approach to health and they respond by participating in their
own exploitation by calling public medicine "socialist"
Blimey - banned?
I know it is moderated but you have to go the extra mile to get

Re: Claude Levi-Strauss dies

2009-11-10T18:14:22Z

Camus was in the advanced guard of the French posty philosophers.
I read his Myth of Sysyphus whilst undergoing all that nasty cancer
treatment last year, and his reflections on suicide helped me prepare
myself for the worst.
I hope to revisit him soon.
6 weeks ago I signed up for an MA in Intellectual History, which I am

Re: B.O.DI.C.E.A. C.A.N.C.E.R.

2009-11-10T18:59:49Z

Does this posting have any meaning at all?

On Nov 10, 4:04 am, "Serenity Smiles" <gentle.esse...@hotmail.co.uk>
wrote:

Re: Claude Levi-Strauss dies

2009-11-10T18:16:47Z

When I was doing archaeology I always found C Levi-S's technique of
conceptual oppositions very useful for the interpretation of building
distributions, iconography and spatiality.

Re: [epistemology 10926] Claude Levi-Strauss dies

2009-11-10T17:29:46Z

Yes, I remember his work well... he had great influence on my thinking as it
concerned the field research in Cultural Anthropology. Though I felt his
"binary code" primarily applied to cultural myth & perspective to be
somewhat limiting, there was that element of the paradoxical tensions
created when the chief elements or proponents found in the classical sets of

Re: Claude Levi-Strauss dies

2009-11-10T16:07:30Z

Actually I have been posting a lot on alt.philosphy, atheism vs
christianity and Political Forum..../Chaz

Political Forum?.... the one that I suggested to you a while
back?..... Hell, Chaz, I got "banned" from there , myself, not too
long ago. Damned their "moderators" to an eternity in hell with their

Re: Claude Levi-Strauss dies

2009-11-10T16:02:48Z

Speaking of that "generation" of the French... Have you ever read
Albert Camus....especially "the RebeL"? I've tried to complete it ever
since I was a teen-ager, just never get around to it.So I read a few
chapters, then leave it for some years... then read some more...
etc.... Camus' theory on "Rebellion" isn't necessarily the main