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Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ May 28 2008,14:52) | Quote (Arden Chatfield @ May 28 2008,01:50) | Quote (Robert O'Brien @ May 27 2008,19:45) | Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ May 22 2008,20:53) | WAD operationalizes nixplanation:
63 William Dembski 05/22/2008 7:55 pm
Cue: Im not following this thread too closely, but to say that methodological naturalism is an essential ingredient of the scientific method betrays a gross ignorance of the history and philosophy of science. Indeed, its not even fair to say that there is one scientific method. Percy Bridgman put it this way: the scientific method, insofar as it is a method, is doing ones damndest with ones mind, no holds barred. In any case, youre out of here. |
What was Cue's transgression? |
The usual, not kissing Bill's ass enthusiastically enough:
Quote | Cue 05/22/2008 7:33 pm Bornagain, to say that it is artificial may be correct, but to say that it is unnecessary is not. The scientific method is a specific process. It is not the only process. It is, however, the process represented in the schools when natural science is taught.
Studies that dont fit the scientific method, such as they arent conducive to experiments or arent readily communicable, can still be studied, but not as a natural science.
In 61 above, when you find imposed materialism to be the biggest hinderance to science, I suggest that simply doesnt make sense. Science (natural science), by definition, has that imposition. If you mean that imposed materialism is the biggest hindereance to knowledge - appreciating that science is but one tool to gain knowledge - then the argument would make more sense. |
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What is especially entertaining about WAD's post is that Percy Bridgman was the originator of operationism (although he never liked that term), and sought to replace abstract theoretical concepts within physics with the analysis of the operations by which those concepts are measured. These notions were influential among logical positivists. The logical positivist Feigl spent a sabbatical with Bridgman in 1930, after which he joined the faculty at Harvard and brought Bridgmans views to the attention of E.G. Boring and his students S. S. Stevens and B. F. Skinner. As transplanted to behaviorism, operationism construed subjective experiences and cognitive activity (and agency generally) as beyond the reach of a truly scientific psychology.
In short, Bridgman, whom WAD quotes in support of his warped construal of the natural world in terms of a guiding (but shy) intelligence, was actually the author of ideas that resulted in the ejection of intelligence and agency from human psychology for 50 years.
You'd think the guy would read up a little before he begins to go on about "gross ignorance of the history and philosophy of science." |
Would you like me to give a P-A-R-:0)-D-Y of Lady Boy Bill's facetiousness to that rather phosphorous materialist reduction of said Girlyman's House of Cards sooty stain on ID lab bench.
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wMAD: RB .....here at UD science pseudoscience is what I say it is and if I quotemine some early postmodernist social scientist, with a twist, then the twits on this board will feel vindicated that their knob polishing hasn't been in vain. Remember history is written by the victors and my case I am truly a ber victoriass lacy angel winner. So there :P. and besides they haven't been on Colbert Nation or to Heffies place.
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