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From: "carr0023@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <carr0023@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 06:07:19 CST
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C o m m e n t a r i e s .4
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Mathematics is a peculiarly internal endeavor that seeks to
create abstract systems of foliative knowledge that are perfect in the
consistency and the perception of their issue.
Positive science is a public enterprise that directs itself at
the objectification and reductionist observation of categories of
phenomena. It is a process intended to produce intersubjectively valid
descriptions of precision and regularity. It is hence rigorously
attuned to the detection of error.
These separate commitments to perfect knowledge, internal and
external, are joined in modern science, and serve as the basis for its
legitamacy, thus installing mathematics as its high theology.
Sciences treating phenomena that resist mathematical construction
are necessarily seen as deficient. Categories that defy objectification
and observation are perceived as residual, quaint and of vanishing
importance.
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Art, like morality, having no revealed legitimacy, becomes only a
phenomenological category for appropriate study.