>>> Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.COM> 06/19/2008 10:40 PM >>>
``Notice the difference between your two examples...Your music example tests theory with practice (with instruments)...Your physics example remains theoretical...'' CB
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No. I just didn't give an example of common cross cultural practice. The working example of the practical sense of gravity is found in building and architecture. Almost all cultures use some form of dwelling with often unique or characteristic forms. Most of them depend on gravitation force to hold them together or anchor them to the ground, and various engineering principles to get the root up. So people learn a lot of the basic mechanical principles as they build. In my mind, that's learning how gravity works, without knowing anything about its theory.. . CG ^^^^^ CB: Sure. Or as Engels says to illustrate the operation of scientific laws, an economic crisis demonstrates the laws of motion of capital like
the law of gravity demonstrates itself periodically when a roof falls in.
I didn't mean that there haven't been practices (experimentation or industry) that prove the mathematical theories of gravity. I meant that the way you happened to state the two examples differently incidently illustrated the idea of practice as the test of theory. There's no way to prove the truth of a theory by only discussing it. And I didn't meant that you intended to prove it by just stating it. Sorry.
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