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From: [email protected] (Gary Merrill)
Subject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Mark Fulk) writes:
|> I don't think "extra-scientific" is a very useful phrase in a discussion
|> of the boundaries of science, except as a proposed definiens. Extra-rational
|> is a better phrase. In fact, there are quite a number of well-known cases
|> of extra-rational considerations driving science in a useful direction.
Yeah, but the problem with holding up the "extra-rational" examples as
exemplars, or as refutations of well founded methodology, is that you
run smack up against such unuseful directions as Lysenko. Such "extra-
rational" cases are curiosities -- not guides to methodology.
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