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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Why Does Planck reject the claim that statisticals laws & the uncertainty relation make the causality of individual physical events meaningless?

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How can an intellectual experiment lead to new laws that do not permit direct measurement?

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Does Planck prove that scientific progress toward a better understanding of the world is not "an aimless zigzag" (p. 174)?

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How does Planck's argument about free will (p. 175) lead to the conclusion that no scientific ethics is possible?

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If science is inevitably tied to the personality of the scientist, does this tie help or hinder scientific progress?

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Does the "single interconnected system" (p. 175) of natural science and "intellectual sciences" mean that everything has a scientific explanation?

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