Re: Kuhn, was Re: new to list

From: Tim Maroney (tim@maroney.org)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2001 - 19:32:54 MDT


>> Is anyone suggesting that we should
>> never even consider the idea that scientific paradigm shifts form a
>> successive approximation to truth?

> Not I, but that is the position of the subjectivists and of the luddite
> movement.

Just to clarify -- I should have said:

Is anyone suggesting that we should never even question the idea that
scientific paradigm shifts form a successive approximation to truth?

-- 
Tim Maroney    tim@maroney.org


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