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>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: The Systems Reply I
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <6687@skye.ed.ac.uk> <6854@pkmab.se> <26@tdatirv.UUCP>
Message-ID: <1992May23.152538.11711@psych.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 23 May 1992 15:25:38 GMT

In article <26@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>
>All I am asking is that Searle put his arguments on a scientific, rather
>than a philosophical, basis.
>
When will scientists, and those who call themselves scientists, realize that
these are not opposed. Science is simply the applied side of a philosophy
called empiricism. Empiricism does some things well, and some things very
poorly. Those who would say that if it's not empirical, it's not worth
talking about just don't know what they're talking about.

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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
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