Re: regarding the YINYANG post on extropians

From: Russell Blackford (rblackford@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 21:48:22 MDT


Party of Citizens quoted

> > Science is simply the process (and I emphasise *process*) of rational
> > inquiry into nature. It is not a body of Truth and the truths it
>discovers
> > are always provisional.
>

Then said

>Are you ABSOLUTELY sure of this?

(1) No. I think what I have said is correct and philosophically justifiable.
I don't say it is *certain* or immutable (if this is what you mean by
"ABSOLUTE").

(2) My claim was a philosophical claim about the nature of science, not a
scientific claim.

Russell

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