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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (40234)6/13/1999 12:34:00 AM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Not so for science. Here, "truth" is entirely objective in the sense that experimental
results are repeatable and do not depend on the identity of the experimenter.

Sorry, but wrong.

1) science is finding out that the very presence of the experimenter may change the result of the experiment. The next step will be finding out that the identity of the experimenter also affects the experiment.

2) recent article in Newsweek discussed how women researchers get different answers than men researchers. They ask different questions, evaluate results differently, get different answers.

There is no such thing as purely objective truth. Just for a start, every experimenter observes with his or her senses, and everybody's senses give a slightly different message from the same object.
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