Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?
Bryant (mycol1@unm.edu)
14 Aug 1996 12:24:40 -0600
In article <4uqedm$5g6@bone.think.com>,
Eric Brunner <brunner@mandrake.think.com> wrote:
>Joel and Lynn Gazis-Sax (gazissax@best.com) wrote:
>
>: Actually, he is claiming some contradictory things. He announces
>: that Science is more amenable to uncertainty than Religion is and then
>: he turns around and says that the superiority of Science comes from
>: its ability to more certainly portray the Universe.
>
>I noticed that. It was internally inconsistent, and within one post. A nice
>touch that.
Here are my supposedly inconsistent statements:
1. Science makes no claim to absolute Truth.
2. Scientific methods better "approximate" reality than non-hypothesis
testing ways of knowing.
There is, of course, no inconsistency. I would ask either Joel or Eric
to point out the imagined inconsistency, but have learned that asking
questions is an invitation for abuse. Amazing pair, these two.
Bryant
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