Chomsky and no social science theory

Charles Brown CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Mon Dec 10 12:30:09 PST 2001



|| More Chomsky, from the Frontline interview: "n fact, there is almost

|| nothing in the social sciences that ought to be called a theory.

|| Human affairs are too complicated."

||

|| How can you think and talk without theories, even ones you don't

|| recognize as such?

||

|| Doug

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CB: Notice that natural science is heavily invested in "laws". So, natural science theory is built on a metaphor of jurisprudence, a social science, not to mention that "THEOry" must be rooted in "THEOlogy".



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