Re: Horses beaten, not stirred.

John Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Deaddog wrote:
> 
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> 
> > Special juxtaposition for John:
> > 
> > We do things that are common to all humanity, not merely the scientific
> > element of it, in order to do science. It may be that one day in the
> > indefinite future all this will be convertable to some global theory, but in
> > the meantime, science is done anyway. So we can have untheoretical
> > operational notions and do good science.
> 
> 
> Too much like philosophy to be clear, and so it's hard to determine if
> this is sensible or not.

But as philosophy, it is unimpeachably true.
> 
> > There is a discrepancy between science as an empirical enterprise that goes
> > where the evidence leads (which is a legitimate conception of science) and
> > science as applied materialist philosophy that maintains its materialism
> > regardless of evidence (this is a bogus, though widely held, misconception
> > of science).
> 
> 
> Ditto.

I am not so sure about this one. Did I say it?
> 
> Non--I say, non-woof.
> 
>     --- Foghorn Leghorn wearing dead dog disguise.

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