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From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Skewering stilted language and theory: F. Crews


> I noticed that a major element of Crews' critique of Freudianism (in the
New
> York REVIEW OF BOOKS a few years ago) is that it can't be falsified
> (following Popper's criterion). Unfortunately, this seems to apply to
_all_
> of social science (and to Popper).

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Popper deplored the issue of reflexivity and self-reference from the
moment it was turned on his own conjectures...........

Ian

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