From: Nick Nicholas (raven@interramp.com)
Date: Fri Aug 02 1996 - 02:21:53 MDT
At 10:14 AM 7/30/96 PDT, you wrote:
>
>I take issue with "primarily". Data about current social structures
>can tell us a great deal - you don't have to go back in time for data
>to be useful. Laboratory experiments also tell us a lot. And theory
>is very important for giving one concepts and hypotheses with which to
>understand empirical data. Without patterns to look for, history
>doesn't say much.
>
>Robin Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/
>
>
Do you want to spnd your life as an experinmental animal? I'd persionally
prefre to read about people who had already tried the expernment.
Nick Nicholas
<raven@interramp.com>
<http://www.intr.net/raven>
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