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- From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
- Subject: Re: Hilary Putnam
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.223432.14203@psych.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
- References: <-1363721126snx@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au> <By6vqx.BMu@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:34:32 GMT
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- In article <By6vqx.BMu@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- >
- > This is a bit like asking why you would use a hammer to strike
- > nails. Science is a tool, a methodology, that's all. You're
- > certainly not required to accept its underlying epistemology
- > of logical empiricism.
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- No one has been a logical empiricist for 30 years! Sounds like you've been
- reading too much continental critique, and pretty old critique at that.
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- >
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