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- From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
- Subject: Re: Philosophy before science ? (was : Seman
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.165153.4255@psych.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
- References: <102936.2005.14241@kcbbs.gen.nz> <schiller.726316570@hpas5>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:51:53 GMT
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- In article <schiller.726316570@hpas5> schiller@prl.philips.nl (schiller c) writes:
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- >However my son ! Facts are never presecribed by theory, facts are the
- >results of observation.
- >
- And, as Father Putnam and Grandfather Eddington before him pointed out,
- observations are informed by theories. Thus contrary to phenomenalist
- twaddle, we've got a real chicken-egg problem here that will not be cleared
- away easily.
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