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To: accountclosed who wrote (22391)	4/18/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Don't give me too much credit regarding philosophy, I'm pretty much the hacker like everyone else. Kuhn wrote a book called The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, it's about how paradigms influence what we think we know, how the paradigm can shift and the effect that has on scientific knowledge. I'm sure you know the idea, just not Kuhn's name. The discoveries in quantum physics imply that there are limits to what we can measure, not that there is no unfiltered perception. Our attempts to measure position and momentum of extremely minute objects are affected by the process of measuring, but it's a mistake to extrapolate this from the realm of subatomic particles to the whole of knowledge. The "Copenhagen School" of quantum physics created much of this confusion by confounding a problem in physics with a problem in epistemology. Heisenberg, incidentally, did not hold to the Copenhagen interpretation, and in fact was a philosophical realist. Stanley Jaki has written on this quite extensively, you might enjoy his essays. Jaki holds PhDs in physics and philosophy, and his specialty is the history, evolution, and philosophical underpinnings of scientific thought.