Theoretical Twiddling and Romantic Fiction and Epic

Dace edace at flinthills.com
Mon Feb 14 10:24:24 PST 2000


-----Original Message----- From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>


>I have consistently denied that psychology can *explain* anything.
>[...] -- it can only give
>labels which, as Marx said of "Providence," are only a sort
>of paraphrase of the facts, not an explanation.
>

Let's say you have chills, a fever, an upper chest cough, and extreme fatigue. Does the term, "influenza," explain these facts, or does it merely paraphrase them with a meaningless label?

Ted



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