Re: virus: Re: David's top 10 (here and now)

Joe E. Dees (jdees0@students.uwf.edu)
Mon, 5 Oct 1998 13:10:35 -0500


Date sent: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 08:39:58 +0100
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From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: virus: Re: David's top 10 (here and now)
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> In message <19981004174831.AAA26938@[205.240.180.28]>, Wade T.Smith
> <wade_smith@harvard.edu> writes
> >>If science is about anything, it's about objectivity.
> >>That it might someday encompass subjectivity is sheer
> >>fantasy.
> >
> >If objectivity is about anything, it is about what is here....
> >
> >So, where does your subjectivity come from?
>
> It doesn't "come from" anywhere. Maybe you could
> rephrase that?
> --
> Robin

The position that subjectivity may be reduced to the status of merely
being contained by the objectivity it nevertheless constructs is
rightfully known in philosophical circles as 'naive realism.' Joe