[lbo-talk] Neo-Lamarckianism???? Come on!

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 17 02:28:31 PST 2008


I have never met a scientist, in person or in print, who asserted that everything is knowable. Science itself does not hold anything. Science is a technique.

--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:


> "...science holds that nothing is unknowable in
> principle..."
>
> Ignoring for the moment who "science" might be (and
> taking "nothing" as
> "no thing"), we still notice that there are
> contemporary philosophers
> (e.g. Colin McGinn) and scientists (e.g. Chomsky)
> who hold that some
> things may be unknowable in principle.

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