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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-15-09 03:24 PM
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9. The problem with Kant is he started with incorrect assumptions and thus went too far.
He, like most educated people in his time and all the way until Einstein, thought Newtonian Physics was absolute truth. The understanding that all theories are falsifiable conjectures that merely approximate the truth forces us to modify Kant's assertion that the laws of nature are imposed by our our minds. We impose our theories on the world, but nature always kicks back in the form of falsifications of our theories.
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