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From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Subject: Re: On Going Beyond The Information Given & 'Cognition'
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In article <19950808.210618.88@daffodif.demon.co.uk> PHIL@daffodif.demon.co.uk writes:
>On 8 Aug 1995 13:23:53 -0500,
>  Neil Rickert (rickert@cs.niu.edu) wrote:
>> about little more than paradigm shifts.  If they have heard of Feyerabend
>> it is because they have heard rumors that he is an enemy of science.  The
>> names of most philosophers of science are unfamiliar to most scientists.
>
>Again here you go with your untested unempirical opionated sweeping
>generalisations - you even go so far as to categorically claim that
>scientists who have heard of Feyerabend haven't read him out of a genuine
>interest in the philosophy of science, but have been swayed by rumors! What
>nonsense, and not very scientific for a self-professed scientist. Perhaps you
>should learn to temper such wild speculations by studying a little
>philosophy..... 

Well, I'm one of them, too.  Could you state, concisely, two (or even
one) nontrivial good idea of Feyerabend that I mught have some use
for?

 

