Phil Roberts, Jr. wrote:
> D H wrote:
>> Malrassic Park
>> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:51:58 -0700, Immortalist
>>> <reanimater_2000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> On Aug 11, 6:41 am, Michael Gordge <mikegor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Quoting Dopey Kant
>>>>>
>>>>> "But we don't synthesize reality, make it up, it exists
independently
>>>>> of us, and because reality exists independently of all possible
>>>>> experience it remains permanently hidden."
A citation would be helpful. Did Kant really say "remains permanently
hidden"? It may not matter. Moving on...
> "Physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and
> are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external
> world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
> 1938.
Concept is a difficult term in the philosophical domain. Generally,
let's agree that a Concept is something that stands in place of
something else, usually considered physical reality.
I'd say Kant and Einstein were on to something.
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