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From: marick@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Marick)
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Subject: Re: Consciousness
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Date: 21 Nov 90 18:07:16 GMT
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msellers@mentor.com (Mike Sellers) writes:

>If we cannot describe science any better than to say that 'science is what 
>scientists do, and what scientists do, precisely, is what other scientists do',
>then I suggest that science and its practitioners are not epistemilogically 
>in a position that is any more defensible than any other describer of the 
>world, such as a shaman, priest, philosopher, artist, or politician.  

This is Paul Feyerabend's position in _Against Method_.  Worth
reading.

Brian Marick
Motorola @ University of Illinois
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