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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 <31B16201.A2C@redshift.com>
Mike Wright <darwin@redshift.com> writes:

> > But WE HAVEN'T GOT ANY FINAL THEORIES.  That is ALL I'm
> > saying, and all I'm aware of anybody else saying.  If someone IS saying
> > something else, something foolish, then criticize that person, don't
> > treat him as a loyal disciple of, say, J. Derrida.
> 
> Well, if *that* is ALL you're saying, why didn't you just say so in the 
> first place?
> 
> Only a few deluded physicists think that there will ever be a final theory 
> of anything. Scientists shouldn't like final theories in their own fields - 
> it would put them out of work. 

But what logically follows from this?  What follows?  Do you see? 
Doesn't it perhaps follow that without final theories one cannot
converge on final theories?

Shadows in caves - for centuries!


David

"Resistance to the proposition that the essence of truth is freedom is
based on preconceptions, the most obstinate of which is that freedom is
a property of man."  Martin Heidegger, "On the Essence of Truth," [Vom
Wesen der Wahrheit] translated by John Sallis, in "Basic Writings,"
(old version, 1977) p.126.
