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

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Thu Jan 17 07:12:12 PST 2008


Chris Doss

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.

^^^^ CB: Ok. Scientific technique always proceeds as if what it's investigating can be understood. And no one can tell everybody that there are questions for which the scientific technique cannot be used. No one can foreclose use of the scientific technique on any question. No one can declare for others that some question is an insoluble mystery.

Lets call it scientific philosophy. Scientific philosophy holds that there is no question for which scientific inquiry cannot be applied, no question for which it can be declared that it cannot be understood through scientific technique.



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