[lbo-talk] The Ontology of Two Chairs (was Reich on sex & religion)

[lweiger at umich.edu]

Quoting Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu>:


> --A scientific law is a contingent understanding of the world that
> is almost certain to be replaced in the future; it is not an
> immutable, unchanging characteristic of the universe that existed
> before humans.

But there may be (probably are) immutable, unchanging characteristics of the
universe, and the fact that some of our prior descriptions turned out to be
"mere" approximations isn't cause for skepticism of any sort.

-- Luke