The science is actually extremely cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Pulsar … This is the neutron star remnant of the 1054 supernova!
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(They credit this to Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who was the foremost phenomenologist of perception. His work is interesting but difficult)
Backing up slightly, what's with the long hyphenated phrases? E.g. 'the-astronomical-analyzability-of-the-pulsar-again'
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Garfinkel was a major weirdo, & also suffered from the Continental delusion that writing in weird ways would shake people out of fixed ideas
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Although the ‘weird’ makes sense if you read it as G’s struggling to do descriptions without filling them with ascriptions and assumptions.
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I think “the-astronomical-analyzability-of-the-pulsar” just means that, in virtue of masses of theory and equipment, they were able to >
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interpret the Fourier signal peak *as* a pulsar, although in material fact it was just a dot crawling upward on the oscilloscope.
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