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To: cornelis
"Some people hold that testable assumptions are somehow better. This is on account of a preference for certainty with results."

Not just certainty. We can't know ANYTHING if we can't make tests of our assumptions.

"Others recongize that free causality would not be testable as such. Between the two, the second is the health of a civilization and makes politics possible. That is why better is relative. But the denial of one for the other is an exclusion with consequence."


Sorry, my BS alarm just went off. The above paragraph is nonsensical. Science isn't a postmodernist enterprise.
607 posted on 12/13/2005 10:47:14 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; cornelis
[ Sorry, my BS alarm just went off. The above paragraph is nonsensical. Science isn't a postmodernist enterprise. ]

Science is composed of scientists.. And some make Vestal Virgins out of them(scientists).. whom were in fact/became whores.. and thats no BS..

617 posted on 12/13/2005 10:59:45 AM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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