Its not as simple as agreeing or not as a lot of the so called first principles
are self referential or wound into self referential extensions and its nigh on
impossible to avoid that, well as far as I know it hasnt yet been done.
Godel was right...
ie. Defining something doesnt make it true and especially so in the absence
of an absolute reference, especially a non anthropic one ;)
cheers
mike
At 07:05 AM 22/01/07, you wrote:
Things like Euclids Postulates
I agree with that - the first four of Euclid's five postulates are truly
self evident truths - definintion of a point, definition of a straight line
etc. However Euclid's fifth, based on the parallelism of lines, has a
fundametal problem that was finally resolved by Hilbert using hyperbolic
geometry.
Kepler's Laws, Newton's
Laws
Only as far as the accuracy set by general relativity, and even that is now
under scrutiny in the quest for a grand unified theory.
Ohm's Law
Not a done deal at the quantum level - but that remains to be established.
Kirchoff's Voltage and Current Laws
Which are really a statement of the First Law of Thermodynamics
(conservation of energy), which is pretty much established as a fundamental
law.
Maxwell's Equations
Which again works, and can be either used with a quantised field, or adapted
into general relativity. But note the above comment on grand unified
theory.
So I only agree in part with the list.
Craig
Regards
Mike
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