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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: WARNING Popperesque Paradigm shift approaches
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In article <5902a4$ltl@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>,
Greg Diamond <gdiamond@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> wrote:
>In article <58rtn4$6r4@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>,
>John M. Lawler <jlawler@pacman.rs.itd.umich.edu> wrote:
>>Of course.  Though, let it be said, only in the usage of the term "ironic" 
>>which has come to mean "self-demonstrating", which is itself ironic in
>>several other senses.  As we are demonstrating daily, English-speaking
>>scientists all speak their own individual scientific Englishes, with their
>>own etc.  This is part of what Feyerabend was saying, to braid a different
>>thread.  Or was it this thread?  I forget. 
>
>And yet communication takes place, suggesting limitations to our
>limitations....

I.e., not anything goes, to put the point to Feyerabend's anarchism.
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<J Q B>

