Science, Science & Marxism
Mark McEahern
marklists at mceahern.com
Thu Jan 10 11:25:28 PST 2002
Justin Schwartz wrote:
> The idea that we accept what science says about its subject
> matter as true does not make scientists into priests whose
> views cannot be questioned. Their competence is limited to
> their subject matters.
Ideally, there would not be a distinct 'we' who listens to what a
separate-from-us 'science' says. In other words, we don't [simply] accept
what science says about its subject matter--nor do we wily nily reject it.
We accept it as provisional and as always open to refutation.
Always?
Yes, always.
Cheers,
// mark
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