[lbo-talk] Baby thoughts

[c b]

Hey, for once I agree with the DOSSmeister (although I still refuse to
top-post!). Science is a relatively recent human invention; people and
animals they been figuring out how their bodies work and how the world
works for a long, long time. Perhaps turn the referent of the simile
around: a scientist is like--a little drooling baby?

Miles

^^^^^^^
CB: Agree with Miles and Chris.  The idea of an individual baby
discovering the world as like the activity of science is basically the
error in the positivist model of the scientific process. It's
Russell's error in trying to base math on an individual "logicizing".

 Science is a very essentially social process. As Newton said, he
stood on the shoulders of giants. He wasn't an isolated midget with a
big single brain.