[MD] qualified relativists

118 ununoctiums at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 07:30:49 PDT 2012


Hi Ian,
I think the question may be: How static do we make the human view?

Sent laboriously from an iPhone,
Mark

On Mar 27, 2012, at 1:46 AM, Ian Glendinning <ian.glendinning at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Craig,
> 
> Any idiot can look up wikipedia / dictionary definitions (even Platt) ;-)
> I was obviously choosing to "create" my sentence by re-arranging the
> same words Mark had used.
> 
> (If we are going to discuss Anthropocentrism we need to bear in mind
> that there are 4 or 5 or maybe 6 different weak and strong versions of
> the anthropic principles. Being contentious & debatable - they never
> stick on wiki pages more than 5 minutes - so that's the worst place to
> look.)
> 
> This is the last thing I posted - but it's a recurring theme.
> http://www.psybertron.org/?p=3981
> 
> Ian
> 
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:09 AM,  <craigerb at comcast.net> wrote:
>> CORRECTED SUBJECT LINE:
>> 
>> [Mark]
>>> Anthropocentrism means that "the way we see things is the way they must be."
>> 
>> [Ian]
>>> [Anthropocentrism means that] "the way we see things is the way we must see them."
>> 
>> [Wikipedia]
>>> Anthropocentrism describes an analysis from the perspective that human beings are the central, only or most significant animal
>>> species, or the assessment of reality through an exclusively human perspective.
>> 
>> See also
>> 
>> [Wikipedia]
>>> In astrophysics and cosmology, the anthropic principle is the philosophical argument that observations of the physical Universe
>>> must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it.
>> Craig
>> 
>> 
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