Ordinarily, were I told that a spat had developed between Lou & ravi I would automatically assume that the initial offending party was Lou - ravi's posts are almost always both cogent and unofffending, whether or not one agrees with him. But it seems to me that in the present case ravi simply hijacked one of Lou's posts for the sake of riding is own private hobby horse. Hence his suggestion below to use a filter is really quite obtuse. No one (I should think) would wish to filter out ravi's important contributions to many threads, which only makes his behavior in the present instance more objectionable. Lou's original post had nothing to do with the various controversies over the nature, scope, and limits of western science. Moreover, to carry out his hijacking ravi had to launch a wholly unprincipeld attack on Diamond, since the whole of his comment was founded on the implicit claim that he was capable of telepathy at a distance and therefore had intuited Diamond's motives. His intuition was almost certainly wrong. Intellectuals are far too divided on the issues ravi raises for Diamond to have had the motive of achieving status among them. In fact he probably knew he was risking loss of status.
Unless a writer develops a contrary case, "science" does NOT mean what ravi makes the word mean here. Rather "science" in the first instance means the achievents within narrowly specified domains, of (for example) Planck, Einstein, Darwin, Lister, and so forth. That science makes none of the calims that ravi implicitly ascribes to it. There is great need to debate science in its various aspects and as conceived by various thinkers. Ravi has only confused the possibility of such discussion here by his strange hijacking of a topic interesting in its owh light. Carrol ravi wrote: > > On May 8, 2009, at 8:51 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > > ravi wrote: > >> My notion of science doesn't matter. The question is: which side, > >> of the two described above, holds the centre (and power) in science > >> today? > > > > I can't stand the fact that something I wrote on my blog has > > triggered such a useless discussion so I have changed the subject > > heading. > > Learn to use a mail filter, instead. > > --ravi _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
