> It is as though someone were to suggest that quantum physicists lacked
> an appreciation of the art of adjusting oven temperature for baking
> bread. At a certain level of abstraction, certain propositions are true,
> PERIOD. And for someone to say that those propositions don't explain
> something at another level of abstraction is pure obscurantism. Of
> course they don't -- and that is utterly irrelevant. A study of oven
> temperatures doesn't explain General Relativity. Big Deal. General
> RElativity doesn't explain oven temperatures. Big Deal.
>
> Carrol
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1 Adam 12, spot the authoritarian stance in the above paragraph; interested parties may find Barbara Hernstein-Smith' "Belief and Resistance" highly relevant to diagnosing CC's problem[s].............
Ian