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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Scientific Epistomology, or "Social Text" Editors Make Ted
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In article <31BB5974.4666@texoma.com>
Fred Meyer <f3meyer@texoma.com> writes:

> There is benefit in seeking the "final theory" or the "grand unified theory". It drives 
> the increase in knowledge. But there is no hope of actually acheiving such a theory.
> 
> Fred Meyer 3

There is benefit in seeking new theories, and in some cases in trying
to find overlapping, combinatory theories.  But the notion of a "grand
unifying" theory is just a symptom of the dream of a final theory.

David

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
