paradigms

[Daniel L. Everett]

On Wednesday, Mar 10, 2004, at 21:22 Europe/London, Martha McGinnis
wrote:

>> But you can rest assured that the points about what theories are for
>> aren't really necessary at this level of discussion. Saying that you
>> want to derive the facts rather than say that they are merely
>> memorized adds no new information to anyone's processor, at least
>> not anyone reading such a list.
>
> Perhaps I misunderstood, but I don't think Jonathan was making a
> metatheoretical statement.  I understood him to be making a
> falsifiable empirical claim: that paradigms may be a useful
> descriptive tool, but they have no theoretical status.
>

But they do have theoretical status. Just not in DM.

Dan