by Robin Bloor | Jan 4, 2022 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
ALL Cosmology, since the advent of the so called “Age of Enlightenment,” has been an attempt to determine the mechanics of the dead body of the Universe. There has been no effort to conceive of, never mind discuss, the possibility of an absolute...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 9, 2021 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
In 1880, undergraduates of Balliol College, Oxford wrote a number of quatrains lampooning various members of the college. About Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol, they wrote as follows: First come I. My name is Jowett.There’s no knowledge but I know it.I am...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 29, 2021 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
Perhaps the most prevalent area of inexactitude in science is in its use of mathematical modeling. Mathematics is not a science per se. It is a very useful related discipline that provides scientists and engineers with extremely useful tools—statistics being just one...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 22, 2021 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
The question we discuss is: How useful is contemporary science as a source of knowledge? There are good reasons to be cautious about its various theories and proclamations. So many reasons, in fact, that this is a two part article. Let’s begin with the problem...
by Stephen Aronson | Jun 3, 2021 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
A friend and teacher said to me once; “Ideas are the building blocks of concepts and theories. When they are stacked and tied to each other in a particular pattern, they form a lattice in the conceptual part of my mind. But, as exciting as ideas may be to my mind, of...
by Robin Bloor | May 20, 2021 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
When we learn contemporary science, we need to grasp some fundamental concepts. The same is true of objective science. Below we briefly describe and explain its basic concepts. Cosmos The first fundamental concept of objective science is the idea of a cosmos or cosmic...