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- From: thompson@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (T. Scott Thompson)
- Subject: Re: "Death of America"
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:54:28 GMT
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- canright@convex.com (Robert Canright) writes:
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- >In <thompson.726422768@daphne.socsci.umn.edu> thompson@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (T. Scott Thompson) writes:
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- >>>This is the
- >>>philosophical underpinning of all sciences and engineering. Unfortunately,
- >>>economics tends to ignore it.
-
- >>I disagree that conservatism is the "philosophical underpinning" of
- >>all science. Were Galileo or Copernicus's new models of the solar
- >>system conservative? How about Einstein's relativity theories?
- >>Major advances in science have often occured through radical breaks
- >>with the accepted wisdom, even when the new ideas went against the
- >>"common sense" of their time.
-
- >Galileo & Copernicus are not representative of average science. Average
- >science resists breakthroughs. This is why Thomas Kuhn wrote "The
- >Structure of Scientific Revolutions" back in the 60's. The buzzword
- >"paradigm" has infiltrated the business community by way of consultants
- >& authors, but the basic concepts from Kuhn's book still have a way to go,
- >based on Thompson's comments.
-
- >Disagree with me. Disagree with the original poster (postee?). But read
- >Kuhn and then reconsider your position that science is not a conservative
- >profession.
-
- I did not say that "science is not a conservative profession." I said
- that conservatism is "not a philisophical underpinning of all
- science," which is an altogether different thing. I am aware of
- Kuhn's book and had it in mind when I wrote the message.
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