From: Robert Schneider (rjschn39@bellsouth.net)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2003 - 22:53:03 EDT
Dave writes:
> Del's writing on post-empirical science is descriptive of one current
> approach to the investigation of the universe and its residents. It is
> not to be taken prescriptively. There are other views he discusses.
> Nothing of his that I've read indicates that he buys into that doctrine,
> any more than my discussion of Logical Empiricism (which is nonsense)
> makes me adopt it.
> Dave
>
Nor I, Dave. I was using the word "empirical" in reference to the
scientific investigation of the world, not in the sense of Logical
Empiricism as a philosophy of science, which I also reject.
Bob
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