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Posted by Posy Rorer (A) on June 02, 2007 at 11:05:15

In Reply to: RE: Thanks for the insight, knucklehead... posted by SF tech on June 01, 2007 at 10:11:46

You're welcome. As you see, my perceptive abilities aren't just limited to audio. Say, aren't you the knucklehead who wrote a screaming frothing profanity-filled rant at me the last time (the likes of which I have -never- done on AA), and later said -I- fought efforts to "civilize" the discussion in the FE threads?

>>Now if you could learn to apply Occam's razor to real problems of science, you'd be on to something... instead of playing with your creams and foils. <<

I already have been "on to something" for 20 years going. The creams and foils I "play" with -are- dealing with -real- problems of science, problems that affect our sensory perception. Even if they are problems you are trying your hardest to run away or hide from. Using Ockham's line as an excuse to stupidly dismiss complex phenomenon to where you can apply it to whatever prejudices happen to reflect your simple understanding of things, and obviate the need for empirical observation, is not a practice a real scientist, or a wise audiophile, engages in. Nor does it even follow what William Ockham advises.

If you feel the razor applies, then the question you are asked to answer is: "What part of the theory makes no difference to the observable predictions?". Not knowing anything about the theory or the predictable observations, I don't see you being able to -successfully- answer that question any time soon. And there's the problem. If you don't know anything about what you're talking about, you're not in a position to say what is and isn't "real". If the rule really was that everything you don't know (and have never researched) about science "simply doesn't exist but in the human imagination", due to your misinterpretation of a 14th century friar or because you can't think of a good reason why it should be otherwise, then I think what we'd end up seeing is the universe not existing either.

>>I pity anyone who might have to cohabitate with someone who engages in such utter nonsense.<<

Uh-oh. Gorilla rattling her cage. Now where did I put that banana..... oh, there it is in my pocket! Nope, that's not it....

>>Oh well! Different strokes for different blokes.<<

Not to mention different jokes for different folks!

Objective Audiophile 2007