philosophical question about VOEvent

[Matthew Graham]

> Hi,

> VOEvent is a tool for enabling the scientific assessment of sampled phenomena - that is, for inferring the actual physical noumenon (the "Ding an sich" of Kant) underlying the observations.  <Why> is our element for carrying out this inference.  Since this is precisely where the scientific method (see Descartes) meets the road, <Why> should remain a more formalized part of the schema.  By all means, let's take this opportunity to improve the standard in this area.  But let's avoid subverting the intent of the standard.

Ah, but the problem with the Kantian noumenon is its lack of definite properties. 

	Cheers,

	Matthew
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