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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: George Coyne who wrote (12705)	5/26/1999 11:28:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

The "established principles of science" are subject to revision. A purely subjective idea would be one that has no claim on anyone else, and therefore could be explained but not argued. Any idea that we are willing to advance as being true is not merely "subjective". If it differs from the "established principles of science", it is in the degree of reliability we attribute to it--- i.e., it is in the category of ideas that are likelier to need revision. Therefore, the distinction is only in degree of "settledness"....