[lbo-talk] Science Marches On

Arash arash at riseup.net
Fri Nov 18 16:49:18 PST 2005


But every observation or cognition involves acts of subjective construction: transforming sense-data (say, a blurry image of Saturn) into a theoretical construct ("hey, that's a planet").

- DRR

But if this mental construction robustly accords to the data from your external environment doesn't this suggest what you've constructed reflects what actually exists in the external environment? We aren't constrained to perceptions alone.



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