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To: DreamsofPolycarp
Science does NOT look the same to all these people, because their worldview denies the possibility of true science.

No it doesn't.

528 posted on 06/21/2007 12:19:09 PM PDT by ahayes ("Impenetrability! That's what I say!")
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To: ahayes
No it doesn't.

Actually, it does. An empiricist (again) can only say "this appeared to happen" and then "this appeared to happen." Formulating "laws of behavior" and then extrapolating them to statements about non-observed events is by definition outside the purview of a true empiricist.

532 posted on 06/21/2007 12:38:16 PM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now they bleat like sheep for security)
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