Science can penetrate everything but what it penetrates is not being

Evidence

In other words, theoretically, the transformation of man and nature has no other objective limits than those offered by the brute factuality of matter, its still unmastered resistance to knowledge and control. To the degree to which this conception becomes applicable and effective in reality, the latter is approached as a (hypothetical) system of instrumentalities; the metaphysical “being-as-such” gives way to “being-instrument.” — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 565 (#expands, via linked claim)

If I treated all these as purely ‘subjective’ elements to be stripped away in order to be ‘objective’ about my coffee, I would find there was nothing left of my cup of coffee as a phenomenon — that is, as it appears in the experience of me, the coffee-drinker. This experiential cup of coffee is the one I can speak about with certainty, while everything else to do with the bean-growing and the chemistry is hearsay. It may all be interesting hearsay, but it’s irrelevant to a phenomenologist. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 141 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Science cannot eliminate potentiality and must actually presuppose it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 613; Scientific isolation of structures never leaves the world of existing objects.; Modern physics reframes reality as instrumentality rather than being — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 565 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern physics reframes reality as instrumentality rather than being #expands (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 565
• The experienced object is more certain than the scientific information about it #exemplifies (0.82) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 141