[MD] Phil of science & belief

[David M]

Hi MOQers

Nice page on Wiki about Philosophy of Science:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science

Nice quote from Quine on the page:

"Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient 
intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as 
irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . 
For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in 
Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But 
in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods 
differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our 
conceptions only as cultural posits"

Regards
David M