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To: RightWhale

>Why implies purpose, purpose belongs to humanistic sciences such as psychology and politics, history. Scientists look to describe. If they seek cause they should not be in the field of mathematical sciences.

Are you saying that trying to understand why, for example, a semiconductor has specific properties, is not proper science? If so, I disagree.


38 posted on 04/19/2008 1:16:22 PM PDT by chipengineer
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To: chipengineer
why, for example, a semiconductor has specific properties

You'll never know why. You'll know how it works well enough to use in in a circuit design.

39 posted on 04/19/2008 1:19:47 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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