Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?

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William Edward Woody wrote:
>
> stuart@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Stuart Yeates) wrote:
>
> > Stephen Barnard (steve@megafauna.com) wrote:
> > I beg to differ. Faith-based systems of knowledge are filtered though
> > hypothesis-testing, but at a courser level. Scientific knowledge is
> > is tested `atomically,' one axiom at a time. In general faith-based
> > systems of knowledge are subjected to a single hypothesis-test - does
> > the society sink or swim ? ...
>
> BZZZZZZZT! Wrong answer!
>
> And as your punishment, I hereby banish you to a History of Science
> class, with a Philosophy of Science class as an option.
>

Please get your attributions right, especially when you employ
condescending insults. You implied that I wrote the "I beg to differ"
post, and of course I didn't.

Steve Barnard

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