Posted by
Michael Agar on
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Damned if I know. Clarity of an assertion about how the world works with intent to revise against subsequent experience?
Probably spent too much time in Vienna.
Mike
>>> "Robert Holmes" <
[hidden email]> 07/12/08 5:31 PM >>>
Let me see if I've followed David's argument... science doesn't need math
and it doesn't need to possess any predictive power and - given the
cultural/individual specificity of metaphors - reproducibility seems kinda
optional. So exactly what does something need to make it science?
Robert
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Prof David West <
[hidden email]>
wrote:
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>
> As a human being, and as an anthropologist, I can make predictions and
> create predictive models based on a largely non-conscious understanding
> of culture. Such predictions are not based on mathematics (a
> mathematics of culture is pragmatically impossible at the moment).
> Predictive models do not a science make.
>
> davew
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