Re: Kuhn, was Re: new to list

From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Tue Aug 28 2001 - 22:38:31 MDT


On Tuesday, August 28, 2001 5:27 PM Tim Maroney tim@maroney.org wrote:
>> I don't understand the attack on Kuhn. What is it in Kuhn (presumably
"The
>> Structure of Scientific Revolutions") that you connect to a "delusion
that
>> physical laws are created by people"?
>
> In my experience, few critics of Kuhn have read him.

I have! But I agree with your observation. Even so, it's pretty much a
truism. Most [lay] critics of thinkers tend to be ignorant of their work.
How many people who attack, e.g., Plato have actually read him?

Cheers!

Daniel Ust
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
  See my "Scientific Revolutions Reconsidered"at:
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/Concept.html



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