> 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:
>
>
>> 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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