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roachboy · 03-25-2009, 01:02 PM

so you mean proof in a kind of vaguely scientific-ish sense of the term.
so you discount the legion of traditions from all over the world that are geared one way or another around contact with ancestors and think that a photograph would be better.
just wondering.

if i put that part aside, the question you pose is really about standards of proof or evidence, which ones count and which ones don't.
you approach this from a particular viewpoint that you don't seem to recognize as particular but no matter-----anyway, if these vaguely science-y standards you're on about here are applied, what can you know about "ghosts" or whatever are these phenomena, if they're phenomena....these standards are mostly good for knowing something about the properties of objects at particular scales, under particular conditions, etc. and even that can be seen as problematic, but hey, we're not being serious so put that aside as well.

a ghost is not an object, so modes of knowing geared around the properties of objects at particular scales under particular conditions aren't likely to find much.

it is that simple isn't it?

o yeah--this isn't a question i particularly care about.
many things are as you imagine they are.

03-25-2009, 01:02 PM	#11 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	so you mean proof in a kind of vaguely scientific-ish sense of the term. so you discount the legion of traditions from all over the world that are geared one way or another around contact with ancestors and think that a photograph would be better. just wondering. if i put that part aside, the question you pose is really about standards of proof or evidence, which ones count and which ones don't. you approach this from a particular viewpoint that you don't seem to recognize as particular but no matter-----anyway, if these vaguely science-y standards you're on about here are applied, what can you know about "ghosts" or whatever are these phenomena, if they're phenomena....these standards are mostly good for knowing something about the properties of objects at particular scales, under particular conditions, etc. and even that can be seen as problematic, but hey, we're not being serious so put that aside as well. a ghost is not an object, so modes of knowing geared around the properties of objects at particular scales under particular conditions aren't likely to find much. it is that simple isn't it? o yeah--this isn't a question i particularly care about. many things are as you imagine they are. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 03-25-2009 at 01:05 PM..