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From: cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Consciousness
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Date: 13 Nov 90 23:29:08 GMT
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In article <1990Nov9.202525.11717@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> fostel@eos.ncsu.edu (Gary Fostel) writes:

>  I looked up Kuhn's "definition" of science, wondering if cog. sci, 
>  AI or related subjects would fit. ....
>  In that book he is clearly describing how things are rather than how they
>  ought to be.  

This is one of Lakatos' criticisms of Kuhn, which he lampoons as the
"democratic model of science", i.e., it's science if most scientists
think it is.
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Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aipna   031 667 1011 x2550
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK