PAINFULLY PROFOUND THOUGHT FOR TODAY. Philosophers of science just got confused

PAINFULLY PROFOUND THOUGHT FOR TODAY.

Philosophers of science just got confused by their nascent mysticism.

Scientific search for theories is just free association. But their free association requires instrumentation of logical and mechanical and operational forms since they cannot perceive the imperceptible, unmeasureable and incalculable without such instrumentation.

Free association by way of instruments is still free association: creativity. Its just harder.

But association, analogy, and correspondence are not equal in empirical content to the empirical statement of causality. For that we require operations on order to construct proofs. Those proofs demonstrate that we have not erred by association, analogy, and correlation, and as such have found causality. As such we can make a truth claim.

A scientist, nor any theorist, is not bound by operational discovery. That would be uselessly limiting. Immoral even. But to make a truth claim he must seek empirical and therefore operational proof that he does not err by confusing causality with association, analogy nor correlation.

We need not understand all causes behind each measure (operation) only that such operation is both possible, extant, and reproducible.

This is, in much better terms, and terms bound by objective reality, what Kripke demonstrated in his rather cantorial proof of truth in language.

(Although I am not sure that anyone else had made that connection. I suspect not. I understood kripke’s argument in this manner when I first read it at an Iranian friend’s suggestion. But assumed I erred since my interpretation was unique. Even though I am pretty sure that he meant the same thing about reality that I read in him. )