Re: LOGO-L> Why is accurate thinking so unpopular?

["Bill Kerr" <kerrb@senet.com.au>]

Tom Woods wrote:
>I'm curious what you think about the argument that everything is an
>illusion, that facts are products of subjective experience, that we each
>construct very personal realities using our senses and our ability to
>assimilate and accommodate, and that my reality is necessarily different
>from yours because our experiences (and maybe our sensory apparatus) are
>different. I'm curious what implications your statement might have for
>Piagetian learning.


I think there is an objective reality "out there", which we try to identify
through science and scientific methodology. eg. Newtons laws are
(approximately) true and experimental findings can be reproduced accurately.

I'd look upon Piaget's thinking as a series of potentially useful and
imaginative speculations about mental processes but ultimately the
structural basis in the brain of his speculations will need to be verified
or refuted.

Its a big topic but in the end if we say everything is culturally relative
then we deny that the Universe does work by underlying rules or laws (that
are discoverable by hard work) and our thoughts will turn into mush.

-- Bill Kerr

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