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- Subject: Re: Report on Philosophies of Physicists
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 12:34:54 GMT
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- In <2760@news.cerf.net> Mitsuharu Hadeishi writes:
- > --- previous matter deleted for brevity -----
- This is all very well Mitsu, but the assertion that 'Eastern' modes
- of thought are better suited to describing 'neuroscience' 'cognitive
- psycology' and 'social science' than 'Western' modes is not one you
- have backed up with any facts. I'd be interested in any references
- you can provide demonstrating that a scientist using an 'Eastern'
- mindset had obtained superior results in the fields you have chosen.
- (or any other field of thought for that matter).
- <cheap shot on> 'Western' philosophy, for all it's faults, doesn't
- approve of rolling tanks over students.
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