Ravi said:
by your definition, science is those things among
>the
>various activities of human beings that produce reliable results on a
>fairly consistent basis! so should some aspect of astrology start
>bearing fruit in this sense it will quickly be labelled science and
>subsumed into some school. which is all fine with me, except it remove
>the reason to privilege science before the fact.
>
Sure. Is that supposedto be an objection? The prestige of science depends on its producing results. If astrology produced results, it would be entitled to that prestige too. There's nothing a priori about it.
jks
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