Objectivity

"Objectivity" = ?

• In natural sciences: "observable, reproducible results"
• In formal sciences: "provable propositions"
• In social sciences/humanities: "intersubjectivity of phenomena"

So would that make humanity's knowledge "an intersubjectively approved collection of provable propositions rooted in reproducible experiments"?

Clarke's Three Laws

Arthur C. Clarke postulated three laws in the course of his Sci-Fi career. They are as follows:

1. First law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. Second law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Third law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I really feel inspired by all three of his witty summaries and agree completely. In the few articles in this blog I have tried to approach the essence of transcendental phenomena (Tomorrow), hinted to by the second law.

As to the third law, I have not gone into depth in discussions of complexity (Alucard), most certainly since I do not posses a deep formal understanding of the related family of scientific fields.

The first law is truly fascinating in its own right. I will probably write a separate post in the near future, pertaining to the principle impossibility of developing an intuition for the unknown and the dreadful double-edged blade of experience.

Münchhausen Trilemma

I am quite happy to have found, what seems to be, the friendliest list of unsolved problems in Philosophy (Wikipedia.org)

The Münchhausen Trilemma and the Gettier problem are probably the most fundamental of the bunch, as they guard the entrance to the very meaning of truth and knowledge.

This wiki page is the best ToDo list I have seen in a long time.