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Sunday, August 14, 2005
 
A letter to Red Nova on the limits of the scientific approach, and how experiments disrupt theories, points out that:
In Heideggerian terms, violent assaults by the world of empirical practice on our culturally conditioned notions of abstract theorizing as a comfortable mode of human existence will decenter the scientific subject at his or her core. These jolts must generate ontic anxiety that cannot be anticipated in advance by the authoritative pronouncements of agenda-setting peer conferences or assuaged after the fact by the nostrum of consensual fiat.
This ontic anxiety is itself a byproduct or side effect of the ontological limitations the scientific theorizing, and the typical lack of awareness of those limitations, evident by the Platonism espoused by so many scientists. That said, those who study Heidegger are not immune themselves to the effects of agenda-setting peer conferences or consensual fiat. Dasein's only human, after all.
 
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