It isn't necessarily true that ideas are replaced when their originator dies, as Isaac Newton or Aristotle or Descartes (or Leibniz?) demonstrated.
Also, I think Kuhn's idea about paradigms is largely bollocks. (Even he thought it was, when he got older and had a chance to think about it some more.) It's a postmodernist idea that has itself been superceded, since most scientific progress doesn't follow his model even if individual scientists sometimes appear to. On 27 November 2013 01:26, Roger Clough <[email protected]> wrote: > *The passing on of a paradigm--analytic philosophy* > > Max Planck once said that "Science advances one funeral at a time." > > Thomas Kuhn made a similar conclusion in his magnum opus. > "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". > > Not to speak ill of the dead, but the champions of > analytic philosophy-- the basis of materialism and atheism-- > which are cults that have have degenerated Western thought - > have passed on or are at an advanced age. > > Bertram Russell - Died 1970 > Donald Davidson - Died 2003 > Hilary Putname -- alive but at age 87 - Roger Clough > Willard V.O. Quine -- died 2000 > Richard Rorty -- Died 2007 > J L Austin -- Died 1960 > A J Ayer - died 1989 > GEM Anscomb - Died 2001 > D M Armstrong -- Alive but at age 87 > C D Broad Died --1971 > > What will replace it ? Some suggest pragmatism, > which disclaims the ability to arrive at objective truth. > There is also marxism, which offers "materialism" > and economics in place of objective truth. > > I am suggesting that one avenue has been ignored > since its origin in the 17th century, owing to the > near-religion of materialism. That is the Idealism > of Leibniz. Idealism is superkior to materialism in the sense > that while materialism and analytic philsophy > believe that all that exists is material hence objective. > But Leibniz' metaphysics opens the door to the subjective > universe, which includes mind and which anyone who can > see an object is aware of. > > > > Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] > See my Leibniz site at > http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
