On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Dan Minette wrote:

> The folks I cannot at all have a reasonable discussion are the
> postmodernists...the ones who believe that there is no truth, just competing
> narritives.
>

Actually, to me, that sounds a lot like the assertion that science is not
about truth, but only about the testing of competing descriptions of
events.  I think we have to separate the basic tools and techniques of
PoMo, which are useful, from the hipper-than-thou PoMo "pose," which
isn't.

Marvin Long
Austin, Texas

(Being a contrarian)

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