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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.bio,net.origins,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Occam vs Telos
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Date: Wed, 7-May-86 11:38:14 EDT
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In article <246@spar.UUCP> ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis) writes:
>
>    Is there such a thing as THE objective description of anything?
>    By my account, "objective" means "sanctified by some scientific
>    methodology". Period.
>
	No, "objective" means "yielding the same result or conclusion
when performed by different people", or to put it another way, it
means "the result does *not* depend on *who* is performing the
activity, only on *how* it is performed".
	I do agree, however, that some things may have objective
explanations at different levels.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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