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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Palmistry and Pholgiston Theory

--- by JLS
----- for the GC

AFTER EXPRESSING HIS INTENTION TO FOCUS ON "Diagnostic Realism" (which narrows the metaphysical outlook to 'the deliverances of science'), with his usual wit, he adds:

But what science?
And WHAT deliverances?


"Surely not palmistry and phlogiston theory!"

Who said he couldn't play Kuhn in parts?

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