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To: Hank Kerchief
"Are you implying that the methods of science are other than objective?"

Well, sure. Politics, hunches, intuition, socioeconomic background, religious prejudice (including atheism) all figure prominently in human activity - and science is a human activity. Kuhn, Lakatos, and Feyerabend have all explored this.
35 posted on 04/06/2003 12:39:11 PM PDT by NukeMan
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To: NukeMan
science is a human activity

Couldn't disagree with you there.

Feyerabend! Can you imagine what Socrates and he would have said while walking among the shades!

44 posted on 04/06/2003 1:33:18 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: NukeMan
"Are you implying that the methods of science are other than objective?"

Well, sure. Politics, hunches, intuition, socioeconomic background, religious prejudice (including atheism) all figure prominently in human activity - and science is a human activity.

All dogs are carbon based organisms.
All cats are carbon based organisms.
Therefore, cats are really just a kind of dog.

or

Nonobjective activity like politics, hunches, intuition is human activity.
Science is human activity.
Therefore science is just another nonobjective activity.

This is a formal fallacy called Illicit Major, and is documented here.

Thanks for warning me about those guys. This is a pretty basic error.

Hank

79 posted on 04/06/2003 4:07:10 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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