[lbo-talk] Baby thoughts

[Alan Rudy]

>
> ^^^^^
> CB:  Yes, many of them are scientists, materialists. In _Les Pensees
> Sauvage_, Levi-Strauss illustrates the scientific knowledge, botany,
> of prehistoric peoples.
>
> Here's a first epistemological principle: the test of theory is
> practice; the proof of the pudding is in the eating.    The blacksmith
> demonstrates his metalugical scientific knowledge when the horseshoes
> function well.  The stone masons who built Mexican or Egyptian
> pyramids proved their scientific and geometric knowledge in practice
> still evident to us today.
>
> Science didn't begin in Europe in the 1400's.
>

We agree, this explodes the idea that inductive/empiricist/modern Science
defines science.