Re: god makes hubey
H. M. Hubey (hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu)
21 Nov 1995 00:57:26 -0500
bdiebold@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Benjamin H. Diebold) writes:
>Excuse me, but it was Hubey who asked someone to "Explain neoteny."
Yes, that's what I said.
>Someone did, and accurately, too. Then Hubey criticizes the respondent,
>accusing him of cicularity.
Someone who thinks that giving names to things is explanation might
find things odd; scientists don't.
If you went to a doctor and complained of rapid heart beat and he
wrote down tachycardia, would you be impressed? I wouldn't. He gave
it a latin name and still doesn't know what caused and still hasn't
explained it to me. He might have impressed me if I hadn't checked
the definition of it, and perhaps the idea behind it is to use
the spirit lifting psychological effects of fancy sounding latin names
as a part of the cure when they can do nothing else, but to use
these tricks in science is tantamount to quackery.
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Regards, Mark
http://www.smns.montclair.edu/~hubey
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