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- From: tobis@skool.ssec.wisc.edu (Michael Tobis)
- Subject: Re: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.175104.17984@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
- References: <1992Dec30.154805.20672@pbhye.PacBell.COM> <725777050snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:51:04 GMT
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- In article <725777050snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au> and a previous article, gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick) writes:
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- |> > >Of course he didn't mention *the environment* because there is no such
- |> > >thing.
- |> > ...
- |>
- |> The notion of a single objective environment we together must look after
- |> better is absolutely untenable, when plainly one's subjective social,
- |> built and natural environments are merely a part of the wider context
- |> in which one finds oneself.
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- Eep. This is another hazard of an education in social science rearing its
- ugly head. The worst hazard, in fact.
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- I think this radical relatiovism is the single most dangerous idea currently
- receiving any serious attention. It is inimical to the whole program of science
- and also to the prospect of getting our problems under control and reviving
- the moribund ideas of optimism and progress.
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- It's also demonstrably wrong, but only demonstrably to people who have the
- patience to examine the demonstration, which is physical science itself.
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- mt
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