>>> "Craven, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/01/99 02:50PM >> Why is it that Indigenous cultures have traditionally employed non-linear and non-reductionistic paradigms that "modern science" seeks today after the failures and irrelevance of the ultra-reductionistic, positivist and linear paradigms and methods? (((((((((((((( Charles: A relative newcomer to human knowledge, dialectical materialism ,rediscovered this epistemology.