Re: Horses beaten, not stirred.

John Wilkins wrote:

> John Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>Deaddog wrote:
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> ...
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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.
>>>
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>>Too much like philosophy to be clear, and so it's hard to determine if
>>this is sensible or not.
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> But as philosophy, it is unimpeachably true.
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>>>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).
>>>
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>>Ditto.
>>
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> I am not so sure about this one. Did I say it?


That was actually my bet to be a Dembski quote.

>>Non--I say, non-woof.
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>>    --- Foghorn Leghorn wearing dead dog disguise.
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> 
> Nobody here except us chickens.
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