[lbo-talk] The Ontology of Two Chairs (was Reich on sex &religion)

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Mon Jan 3 18:46:47 PST 2005


----- Original Message ----- From: "Miles Jackson" <cqmv at pdx.edu>


> You're missing my point. I am not skepticism about the existence of
> real patterns; I'm skeptical about the claim that science at one
> particular point in time accurately represents those patterns with
> its models. (In other words, I have faith in scientific progress!)
>
> Miles

You're sort of missing mine. When I said, "...isn't cause for skepticism of any sort," I meant both ontological and epistemic skepticism. Yes, we should be aware of the fact that some of our current models aren't as accurate as future models will be. I don't think any scientist would beg to disagree. Most of them are also fans of scientific progress. (Unless perhaps it's their model that others are threatening to overturn :) )

-- Luke



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