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From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Social sciences & subjective experience
Message-ID: <87@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 15:39:01 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  9 15:39:01 1985
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In article <1310011@acf4.UUCP> mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) writes:
>>>    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?
>
>No, it only limits them.

It seems to limit psychology drastically.  I think your comment (>>>)
was an overstatement at best.  For one thing, I think it may in principle
be possible to explain/correlate subjective experience with neurobiological
events.