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To: Roscoe
Raw data requires interpretation.

Paint by the numbers reductionism.

Nonsense.

re·duc·tion·ism
n.
An attempt or tendency to explain a complex set of facts, entities, phenomena, or structures by another, simpler set: “For the last 400 years science has advanced by reductionism... The idea is that you could understand the world, all of nature, by examining smaller and smaller pieces of it. When assembled, the small pieces would explain the whole” (John Holland).

105 posted on 10/08/2002 11:56:36 AM PDT by MrLeRoy
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To: MrLeRoy
Unsupported falsehoods repeated endlessly don't support claims of sincerity, except perhaps for zealots.
109 posted on 10/08/2002 12:00:29 PM PDT by Roscoe
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