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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP
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Subject: Re: science and social science
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Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 10:06:59 EDT
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["Who are we anyway?" --J. Lennon In His Own Write]

> >    Individual subjective experience is by definition external to
> >    the universe of science, since the scientific method involves
> >    by definition phenomena that are verifiable by independent
> >    observers.
> 
> Does this mean that the social sciences aren't sciences?

If being wrong is a symptom of not being a science, social science
qualifies easily.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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