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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (18761)	7/20/2001 8:51:52 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

Few of us are in a position to independently verify. We know Germany did not win World War II, because of the current geo- political landscape, but we did not know that Troy existed until Schliemann, and what if he had not been obsessed? Perhaps we would never have had independent verification. Science itself is the result of philosophy setting forth its protocols. It is not self- validating. It is no good to say that science "works", since that was not so clear as the enterprise was being developed. If anything, it is as much a validation of the philosophy as it is of science, showing that analysis drawn from ordinary experience can make progress in the development of method and establishment of truth.