On Feb 5, 2010, at 11:44 PM, david buchanan wrote: > > dmb says: > Well, I just spent a week making a case against relativism so I gotta > disagree. Disagree with the personal thing too. Kuhn, for example, who is > usually cited in support of the revolutionary scientist, says that > innovations actually come out of science teams and the history of science > shows that very little progress occurs except when there is first a long > sustained period of consensus when everybody is more or less on the same > page. As he would put it, successful divergent thinking almost always springs > from successful convergent thinking. In other words, it takes a lot of > discipline to be creative in the sciences. > >
Greetings dmb, Sorry, but I don't even remember you giving an adequate definition of 'relativism,' let alone making a case against it. Marsha ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
