On Feb 10, 2012, at 8:01 AM, Kari Kuutti wrote:
> (A longish message -- sorry; one of my pet topics...)
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> I believe that the point Don is making is that while we may not need
> Science with capital S we are still needing science with small s...
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> When "Science" is a quest for General, Global, and Timeless Truths,
Sorry can't let that pass without comment. Science even with a capital S is not that. Science is the categorization and ordering of things and their relations. Truths, should they exist, might be part of that or might not, it really depends on ontology and epistemology at that stage, but science is just a practice that orders things and their relations.
There are whole fields of course, and several of us on this list are members of those fields that study science itself or the philosophy of science, and well while there are always camps, at base level science shouldn't be capitalized like that at all, as I'm in one of those camps.
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Jeremy Hunsinger
Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
--Pablo Picasso
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