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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (35718)4/23/1999 11:02:00 AM
From: Chuzzlewit  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Do these birds of which you speak try to pick apart their own ideas, or those of others? Yes, both.

Evolution was a wonderful case in point. There was a raging debate about a fifty years ago concerning preadaptation vs. postadaptation. Once the definitive proof that postadaptation was incorrect the idea of preadaptation became universally accepted in fairly short order. Note that you cannot generally prove something true; instead you tend to disprove ideas. Only when continuing assaults on the hypothesis prove fruitless does science bestow the idea with the mantle of "theory".

Clinical psychology, sociology and other soft "ologies" don't seem to require this kind of rigor, so I don't want to comment on them too much. I will say that a lot of what I see coming from clinical psychology seems to be pretty good fiction (recovered memories for example), but hardly qualifies as science.

TTFN,
CTC
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