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Prolegomenon to a new Copernican revolution
« on: 09/02/2019 00:15:03 »
Prolegomenon to a new Copernican revolution a new science man looses his privileged place at the centre of the universe as a privileged knower man is decentred

http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Decentred1.pdf 

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..... A third decentreing has now occurred The situation is now that man has been
decentred this time from his place as the privileged knower of the
universe. MAN HAS LOST HIS PLACE AS THE CENTRAL REFERENCE POINT
FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE. This because the very medium through which man uses
to understand the universe i.e. language in fact falsifies the universe. Thus man looses his ability to be a privileged knower of the universe. With the inability of language to capture the totality of the known about the universe man ends up without any intellectual reference points and is thus decentred from his privilege place as the interpreter the universe- he is decentred from the universe. Man cannot know the universe as the language he uses to understand the universe at his previous centre only falsifies it .Mans
language is not able to capture the totality of the known about the universe

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The very words physicists use to describe reality constrains their knowledge
of it and scientists in every field will one day encounter this barrier to
human understanding 

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The very words physicists use to describe reality constrains their knowledge
of it and scientists in every field will one day encounter this barrier to
human understanding”

Now on the point of an object being both a particle and a wave Zajak notes
that “we are limited by our language to lists of words much as our worldly
experiences limit the concepts those words bring to mind

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Thus with regard to the ontological nature of the world the situation seems to be as O’Hear notes
“ontology here would be seen as determined by the demands of an area
of discourse, rather than by any feeling that human recognitional powers and abilities should determine the limits of our language.”

In this regard the logic which is generated by the
use of the logical constants of a natural language such as ‘or’, ‘if’, ‘not’,
‘and’ , etc may not be adequate enough for the natural language to interpret
or understand the ontological nature ofthe physical world 
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Re: Prolegomenon to a new Copernican revolution
« Reply #1 on: 09/02/2019 11:14:27 »
Quote from: sim on 09/02/2019 00:15:03
MAN HAS LOST HIS PLACE AS THE CENTRAL REFERENCE POINT
FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE.

You may have missed the memo, but that happened 3 or 4 centuries ago.
Quote from: sim on 09/02/2019 00:15:03
The very words physicists use to describe reality constrains their knowledge
of it and scientists in every field will one day encounter this barrier to
human understanding 
Conceivably, but almost all the specialist words used by scientists have come into being since the acceptance that neither the Earth, nor the Sun is the centre of the universe as it was previously imagined. So the assertion makes little sense in context.
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