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In a message dated 8/18/2002 8:59:06 PM Central Standard Time, rey writes:

 

Dear Professor Tiquia:

 

The "leading Western proponent of

acupuncture in St. Louie " is actually a proponent of electrotherapy and

not acupuncture as we do it

 

Please don't think for a second I to any of his theorems regarding acupuncture. Most of what he says is based on superstitions of the logical positivists.

 

>> Having said this, however, I have to point out that the 'existence' of

>>Qi and meridians have been mapped by numerous Chinese medicine practitioners

>>and scholars in and out of China .

 

Mapped how? Through subjective feeling? With PET scans? Thermographically?

 

If you are going to say that Qi is not a construct, then don't you have to give it some type of objective reality?

 

Do you think that electrons 1) exist? 2) are real ? 3) have ontological reality ? 4) can be observed?

 

Then we must ask the same questions for Qi, and demonstrate our evidence for 1,2 and 4. #3 is merely a linguistic exercise.

 

Guy Porter

 

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Dear Colleen:

 

I am not sure of the antecedent to " this " in your first sentence, however I

was making the point that the criteria for the " existence " of electrons has

to be different from the criteria for ordinary objects. And the criteria for

the " existence " of Qi is different, as is the criteria for the existence of

" The thought I have of Pegasus. " (The latter, by the way, is in quotes since

it is a standard example used in philosophy classes in ontology.)

 

When you say that electrons exist, you have to ask yourself exactly what you

are saying. You haven't seen one (of course) but you have read about certain

measurements, experiments, etc., that all combine to give us the construct

called " electron. "

 

I understand that actually my derrière is less than 1% actual matter and 99%

space. Is there some way to make it at least look smaller?

 

Guy Porter

 

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