[FoRK] materialism vs. humanism vs. history

[Lucas Gonze]

That's not my claim.

I decline to elaborate further.

-L

On Jan 2, 2008 8:00 PM, Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net> wrote:
> On 1/2/08, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > While scientific consensus passes through an open-ended number of
> > states, the scientific method is fixed for all time.
>
> You didn't specify precisely what you meant by the scientific method,
> so I'll assume you meant the standard form generally taught in Western
> schools as hypothesize, test by experiment, refine, etc.
>
> If that's your claim, I'll contest it with the claim that the
> scientific method is in fact evolving to accommodate simulation and
> probabilistic methods and there's no reason to think it's "fixed for
> all time."
>
> - Jef
>
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