> Date sent: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 15:34:26 -0800 (PST) > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Henwood) > Subject: [PEN-L:7436] Re: more science! > At 2:57 PM 11/17/96, James Michael Craven wrote: > > >Gradually > >through debate, cross-testing provisional hypotheses and data/data > >sources, paradigm/power shifts, old-timers dying etc etc some of the > >"constructions of truth" become patently untenable for all but the > >totally warped, some become less provisional and more established, > >some become the established orthodoxy until dialectically, the > >spiral process continues with the established orthodoxy under > >challenge, new and old constructions of truth emerging as > >provisional, some narratives remaining "local" while other local > >narratives become more generalized through linking up of people > >living under not-so-common conditions and forms of oppression and so > >on > > Uh, is this another way of saying that approximations of "truth" are > arrived at through experimentation, struggle, and conversation? > > Doug > > -- > > Doug Henwood > Left Business Observer > 250 W 85 St > New York NY 10024-3217 > USA > +1-212-874-4020 voice > +1-212-874-3137 fax > email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html> Yes it is with the proviso that not all struggle leads toward approximations of "truth"--some forms lead away from it; e.g. struggle based on blind reactions or caricatures; not all conversations lead necessarily toward approximations of truth--e.g alternating monologues based on caricatures of opposing positions as opposed to dialogues starting with at least a correct understanding-- not acceptance--of what is being said and argued; and not all experimentation leads to approximations of "truth" as some experiments represent contrivances based upon contrived hypotheses and syllogisms constructed upon contrived assumptions and meaningless tautologies "supported" by contrived data from contrived data sources or "confirmed" by contrived predictions supported by contrived data-- e.g. much of the neoclassical stuff. Jim Craven *------------------------------------------------------------------* * James Craven * "The envelope is only defined--and * * Dept of Economics * expanded--by the test pilot who dares* * Clark College * to push it." * * 1800 E. McLoughlin Blvd. * (H.H. Craven Jr.(a gifted pilot) * * Vancouver, Wa. 98663 * * * (360) 992-2283 * "For those who have fought for it, * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * freedom has a taste the protected * * * will never know." (Otto Von Bismark) * * * * * MY EMPLOYER HAS NO ASSOCIATION WITH MY PRIVATE/PROTECTED OPINION *
