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<blockquote data-quote="Ampdog" data-source="post: 21218" data-attributes="member: 144"><p>That is not correct, Alan; I (and others) said everybody has the right to an opinion and the right to state it. But you may have noticed that specifically in audio, the problem arises when someone elevates his opinion to dogma, especially when flying in the face of proven scientific fact. That, with respect, smacks of arrogance apart from ignorance, especially when followed by utterences like "science does not know everything", etc. (We have here a basic flaw in the thinking process of some: To assume that the only alternative to "everything is known" is "nothing is known".) It also touches on what many psychologists regard as the most serious (almost to the extent of being insurmountable) barrier in the human thought process: <em>What I cannot understand, cannot exist</em>. (It sounds better in Afrikaans: "Wat ek nie kan <strong>ver</strong>staan nie, kan nie <strong>be</strong>staan nie".)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Quite so -</p><p>but one is referring more to cases where one can be sure. These could be basic, but are also where certainty lies in the way the dogma is defined. E.g. Ohms Law can never have any uncertainty, because we ourselves defined it not to have. Meaning: If there is a voltage drop of 1V over a resistance of 1 ohm, the current flowing must absolutely be 1A, because that is the way science decided to define volts, amps and ohms. </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ampdog, post: 21218, member: 144"] That is not correct, Alan; I (and others) said everybody has the right to an opinion and the right to state it. But you may have noticed that specifically in audio, the problem arises when someone elevates his opinion to dogma, especially when flying in the face of proven scientific fact. That, with respect, smacks of arrogance apart from ignorance, especially when followed by utterences like "science does not know everything", etc. (We have here a basic flaw in the thinking process of some: To assume that the only alternative to "everything is known" is "nothing is known".) It also touches on what many psychologists regard as the most serious (almost to the extent of being insurmountable) barrier in the human thought process: [I]What I cannot understand, cannot exist[/I]. (It sounds better in Afrikaans: "Wat ek nie kan [B]ver[/B]staan nie, kan nie [B]be[/B]staan nie".) Quite so - but one is referring more to cases where one can be sure. These could be basic, but are also where certainty lies in the way the dogma is defined. E.g. Ohms Law can never have any uncertainty, because we ourselves defined it not to have. Meaning: If there is a voltage drop of 1V over a resistance of 1 ohm, the current flowing must absolutely be 1A, because that is the way science decided to define volts, amps and ohms. [/QUOTE]
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