[lbo-talk] "Theory's Empire," an anti-"Theory" anthology

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Fri May 30 13:27:50 PDT 2008


At 01:15 PM 5/30/2008, Carrol Cox wrote:


>I'm not sure what the "this" of "this is even wrong" is pointing to.
>What is not wrong?

That calling something "theory" is prompted by wanting to make it like science.


>I
>think everyone involved in this discussion does agree, in general, that
>science (in some more or less strict sense) is not and cannot be the
>only or even the most important form of human knowledge. Are we agreed
>that the conversation over these distinctions is a useful conversation?

Put that way, yes.



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