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Anonymous Fri May 6 05:39:59 2011 No.3005306 [Reply] [Original]

>>	Scientist !!ThFjnJh4EkH Fri May 6 05:41:59 2011 No.3005309 >>3005306 Related: (Fucking magnets, how do they work? answered) Feynman 'Fun to Imagine' 4: Magnets (and 'Why?' questions...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 05:43:59 2011 No.3005314 >>3005309 I'm a big fan of Feynman, but he came off as a douche in that clip. He just goes off on some tangent about "why" He could've just spent a second to correct the interviewer and spent the rest of the time explaining how.

Scientist !!ThFjnJh4EkH Fri May 6 05:50:59 2011 No.3005330

>>3005314
If you think he was being a douche, you missed the point.

The point is what he said. To make a claim, you must first allow something to be true. In the usual case, we allow inductive reasoning on evidence, aka science, to be true, and from that we can learn more truth.

How do magnets work? We can explain it in terms of models and such, but eventually we will have to explain it terms of the evidence. Why are Maxwell's equations true? We don't know. We know they're true because of the evidence. It's like asking why things fall when you drop them. You can describe how they fall, but you really can't answer why they fall except by saying "They fall, because that's what the evidence says". That's what he was trying to get it.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 05:51:59 2011 No.3005334 >>3005330 No, I got the point. There wasn't some esoteric meaning behind it. He put his idea across pretty well, and he came off as an asshole.

>>	Scientist !!ThFjnJh4EkH Fri May 6 05:52:59 2011 No.3005336 >>3005334 Meh. If that's how he came off, ok.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 05:52:59 2011 No.3005337 >>3005330 In the case of gravity, we do know why things fall.

Scientist !!ThFjnJh4EkH Fri May 6 05:53:59 2011 No.3005341

>>3005337
This should be good. Why?

And to save time, /why/ do we know why your answer is true?

Repeat this /why/ question. If you know what you're doing, you'll eventually terminate this regress with "I don't know. It is, because that's what the evidence says."

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 05:58:59 2011 No.3005352 >>3005341 Sure, yes, but we can answer this first why.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 06:04:59 2011 No.3005363 I don't think I've ever heard Feynman speak without coming off as a douche. I don't know, maybe it's just the "Joisey Jew" accent.

>>	::_ralph_:: Fri May 6 16:08:59 2011 No.3007461 HAHAHAHAHAAHHA

>>	Dr. White !!/zv2MTbpUH9 Fri May 6 16:12:59 2011 No.3007482 >>3005352 Please, do go on.

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