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Actually, and with increasing despair on my part, NO. Some people just never quite get some things.
Consider Shrodinger's Cat - there are some for whom it just never sinks in.

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Categorical Imperative
A term which originated in Immanuel Kant's ethics. It expresses the moral law as ultimately enacted by reason and demanding obedience from mere respect for reason. Kant in his ethics takes his point of departure from the concept of a good will: "Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world or out of it that can be called good without qualification except a good will." But that will alone is good which acts not only conformably to duty, but also from duty. And again the will acts from duty when it is determined merely by respect for the law, independently of inclination, and without regard to the agreeableness or the consequences of the action prescribed. Therefore the first fundamental principle of morality is: "Let the law be the sole ground or motive of thy will." Kant further finds that the law is capable of inspiring respect by reason of its universality and necessity, and hence lays down the following general formula of the moral law: "Act so that the maxim may be capable of becoming a universal law for all rational beings." Necessity and universality, he declares, cannot be derived from experience, whose subject matter is always particular and contingent, but from the mind alone, from the cognitive forms innate in it. Hence the moral law originates in pure reason and is enunciated by a synthetical judgment a priori--a priori because it has its reason, not in experience, but in the mind itself; synthetical, because it is formed not by the analysis of a conception, but by an extension of it. Reason, dictating the moral law, determines man's actions. Yet it may do so in a twofold manner. It either controls conduct infallibly, its dictates being actually responded to without conflict or friction--and in this case there is no obligation necessary or conceivable, because the will is of itself so constituted as to be in harmony with the rational order--or it is resisted and disobeyed, or obeyed only reluctantly, owing to contrary impulses coming from sensibility. In this case determination by the law of reason has the nature of a command or imperative, not of a hypothetical imperative, which enjoins actions only as a means to an end and implies a merely conditional necessity but of a categorical imperative, which enjoins actions for their own sake and hence involves absolute necessity. While for God, Whose will is perfectly holy, the moral law cannot be obligatory, it is for man, who is subject to sensuous impulses, an imperative command. Accordingly, the categorical imperative is the moral law enacted by practical reason, obligatory for man, whose sensibility is discordant from the rational order, and demanding obedience from respect for its universality and necessity.

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My personal favorite is that a cat viewed in 4 dimensions would look like a very odd carrot.
Roger.

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Oh thank you! You guys are a great help! :huh:
Roger....thankYOU
Yes, I suppose it could be applied to any concept, although when reading about, say, astrophysics a person is immediately dealing with concepts which they cannot relate to (akin to a 2d person being placed on a 3d world *Hawkins) but if there are people out there who can grasp such concepts, then sure these same concepts can be communicated in such a way that others can also grasp them, or others should be able to approach the subject from an angle which they can relate to?
I`m struggling with both Astrophysics and Philosophy
Venusxxx

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Got chatting to a nice couple for a meet, exchanged photos and details with them and was just arranging the meet when it came to a discussion about whereabouts in the North East they lived.
Turns out that they hadn't read the ad.
I'm in Durham................. they're in East Anglia!!
I thought it was only us young lads who didn't read ad's properly!!!
sigh!

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Don't tell her, but I'm going to bed now!!

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perhaps i should stop posting as my interlect is clearly not up to the required standard.

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And be warned, I watched The Green Mile and didn`t shed a tear......so I`m a particularly HARD BITCH tonight!

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I'm all cold and wrinkly now!!!! :cry: :cry: :yawn:

You mean ................................................................................ you've turned into Venus!! ??? :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

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OH I didn't realise it was a KIDS party, sorry one track mind got in the way again