From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Aug 31 2001 - 11:22:27 MDT
Tim Maroney wrote:
>
> >> 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?
So long as observational evidence supports the idea, as it did, does,
and continues to do, then questioning it is simply part of the process
of observation. This is not, however, what subjectivists do. They
instead proclaim that science does not form a successive approximation
to truth, that it is simply trading one dead horse for another according
to the practitioners prejudices. They don't 'question' anything, because
they are wed to their theology of subjectivism and only see what they
believe, not the other way around.
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