Logic

[se7en]

hi bar_khela

you wrote:
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The man who wishes to attain human perfection should study Logic first, next Mathematics, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. (Maimonides, Guide to the Perplexed)
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I beg to differ. Only God is perfection... humans can strive for it but never attain it. Actually imperfection is part of our encoding... from errors in genetic replication to allow the mutations and changes that allowed life to evolve... to mistakes in the human psyche and memory well know to the field of psychology.. we will never be perfect.

p.s. I don't think you need to explictly state a new term of metaphysics, which means to reach beyond physis, hence nature, as we perceive it, and to discover the "true nature" of things, their ultimate essence and the reason for being... for physics especially fields like quantum mechanics, relativity and the new fields of string theory and unified field theory etc.. are actually reaching beyond "classical" physics to find the true nature beyond what we perceive... as for the reason for being, no science will ever give you that answer... religions can try.. but ultimately reason is a human invention as a result of the evolution of our intelligence so we can arbitrarily assign whatever reason each of us needs to get us through the day or life for that matter.

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