Epistemology

Posted on April 26, 2006 by David

I didn’t always know that a casual swing of a baseball bat will not so much as crack an old-school television screen. I learned that one at the town dump one day when I was just about 12. It took quite the effort to reach the desired effect. Still I couldn’t guess what it might have taken with a newer model screen. Extrapolation only goes so far.

The best part was when they’d burn the place up. You could come by a few days later and still find a few patches whose flames could be revived with a little creativity. Here’s where the baseball bat did some good. We learned that, once the fire got going again, an abandoned bucket of fertilizer could make us into wizards. Who knows if that’ll be how we trace cancer one day. Some effects are not so immediate as a baseball bat’s.

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