Edge and universalism vs. particularism

[Everett, Daniel]

I still bring out the best in you, I see, Prof. Dr. Leiss.

The idea that “truth” and the striving for it outside of theology is a debatable position, but it does include other proponents of nonsense, from William James ,C.S. Peirce, John Dewey, Richard Rorty, and many others.



Dan 

On Mar 11, 2014, at 7:55 AM, Elisabeth Leiss <e.leiss at germanistik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:

> Nonsense as usual!
> 
> Am 10.03.2014 23:01, schrieb Everett, Daniel:
>> The quaint concept that science is “the pursuit of truth” is a hangover from the Calvinistic and Lutheran roots of the Enlightenment.
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>> It is a historical oddity. Some do seem to believe it however.
>> 
>> I will be debating Nancy Cartwright and George Ellis on a related matter, is there anything we might call “independent evidence” in support of this or that at the How the Light Gets In Festival at Hay on Wye in May. http://howthelightgetsin.iai.tv
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>> At that same conference I will be debating a couple of anthropologists on what hunter-gatherers have to teach us about our evolutionary roots (my answer is "pretty much nothing").
>> 
>> Dan
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>> On Mar 10, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Matthew Dryer <dryer at BUFFALO.EDU> wrote:
>> 
>>> The idea that the search for diversity is somehow less scientific than the search for similarity is nonsense.  Science is the pursuit of truth, whether that truth involves diversity or similarity.
>>> Matthew
>>> _______________________
>>> 
>>> Matthew Dryer, Professor
>>> Department of Linguistics
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