The issue of observability and the relative roles of the senses and reason in understanding the world is reviewed. Eastern ’’mystical’’ philosophy is used as a focus in which interpretations of quantum mechanics, as well as the current bootstrap‐quark controversy, can be seen in some slightly different contexts than usual.
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1979
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