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petrus4 writes "Groklaw has an update on the Laura DiDio saga. Apparently, her complaints about "Linux extremists" notwithstanding, cooler heads than the usual suspects are asking questions about her research. A very interesting read, and one which will hopefully encourage corporate readers to regard the Yankee Group's findings with the requisite metric ton of salt in the future."
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Scientific method vs. philosophy!
Indeed there is little point pursuing ideas of relativeness - if existence is relative upon perception in someone's mind then their mind is absolute - neurons or whatever exist allowing them to think in the absolute. This could be contested...
If perceiving is perceiving, then absolutes are be perceived. There is the falacy of the scientific method: you think its a rock because it fits your perception of being a rock. What if it were a cleverly painted glass ball, it might look and feel like a rock but its not a rock - so your perception is incorrect.
All oranges observed are coloured orange at ripe maturity, do you believe this? So if all cars observed are red does this make all cars red?
Philosophical criticism of the scientific method is indeed interesting, and vice versa. I humbly recommend Kant as a starting point.
The Truth about Linux and Windows - Saturday April 23, @04:47PM - Rejected
The above is from my profile page here on /. Apparently they prefer to be a couple of days late with the news.
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