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Philosophy in which Hume dotes almost every page. Heisenberg
found himself with mathematical expressions without physical
meaning as he worked with these tiny particles and their
behavior and realized that Hume had it figured out all along.
He was a nuclear physicist before his time. But F=MA
did not always apply and that what we call molecules on
paper are just logical constructs and not necessarily what
really happens in nature at all.

Kant had another section of the mind called pure reason.
This was out of the evidential loop. Whereas the world of
common sense and science that came out of the meat grinder
of intuition and understanding dealt with what a man knows,
the pure reason side of his mind dealt with what shall I do,
the acting side, the ethical side. He said since there is
no evidence here we must like mathematics, start with un-
provable axioms. He said moral life makes no sense without
God, freedom and immortality and thus they must be posited,
much as you would posit the diagram of a molecule. The world
of pure reason, he said, is what determines our ethics and
categorical imperative. That with good will and right reason
a man is noble. It is a legislator of ethics with a categorical
imperative acting in such a way as he would have all others
act. Man is a law unto himself, in no need of compulsion
or external law. Moreover, ethics is an autonomous science.
It’s not sociology, you don’t do certain things to get along
better with people. Or psychology, to make yourself feel

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