In a message dated 1/16/2000 7:40:49 PM Pacific Standard Time,
daniel.fabulich@yale.edu writes:
> Similarly, extending this idea to epistemology, you have people like Kuhn
> and Feyerabend arguing that there is no truth at all, even so-called
> "scientific" truth, . . . On this account, there is no Rationality . . .
>. . . <<Only the second of those applies to relativists, the claim that a
rational
language of science is not possible.>>
That pretty much knocks out any scientist (or philosopher of science) from
going with Relavitism as a philosophy. I see you could not name one that has
either (either could I).
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Critical and pancritical rationalism grew out of this uncomfortableness of
scientists with skepticism. Relativism is so far in the opposite direction,
I do not think it is worth wasting time on in science. Kuhn and Feyerabend
are also very controversial. Kitcher is about as far as scientists go out
from rationalism or empiricism.
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