Talk:Other ways of knowing

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Wouldn't just walking outside and looking around count as "non-scientific", since if I look at the neighbour's tree it's entirely subjective and not subject to any sort of scientific methodology. --Kels 06:27, 27 July 2007 (CDT)

Observation is the first step in forming a hypothesis. If you looked at the tree and decided it was evidence that chlorophyll-loving aliens first settled the Earth because you could "feel it", that would be bunk. But observing nature, then forming testable hypotheses is wonderful.User:PalMD

There was a young man who said "God

Must find it exceedingly odd

When he finds that the tree

Continues to be

When there's no one about in the Quad.

"Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd -

I am always about in the Quad.

And that's why the tree

Shall continue to be

Since observed by,

yours faithfully,

God."

Totnesmartin 07:52, 27 July 2007 (CDT)

beat you to it, Martin son of Totnes. see my earlier post

Must be a Ukers thing. Keep^{off the grass} 08:14, 27 July 2007 (CDT)

It IS a UKers thing, the quad is in the grounds of Oxford's Balliol College! Totnesmartin 08:55, 27 July 2007 (CDT)