Re: BHA: negativity wins

[Mervyn Hartwig <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Carrol

Well, all I can say is that it is has been pretty much a commonplace in
the philosophy of science since Kuhn.

Bhaskar contrasts this position with a 'monistic' one - he's not saying
that there is no continuity, rather that there is radical discontinuity
as well as continuity.

What a positivist you seem to be!

Mervyn

Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx> writes
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>
>Mervyn Hartwig wrote:
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>>  (4) - and the warrant
>> for this is 'discontinuism' in science ie the fact of scientific
>> revolutions.
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>
>I see this taken for granted in numerous different contexts, but it has
>never made any sense to me. I see the slow & halting _appearance_ of
>science from 16th through the 19th centuries, and I see various lurches
>fwd as earlier advances (e.g. gravity or natural selection)are placed in
>wider contexts. But it simply appears to be sloppy diction to call any
>of these changes "revolutions." Like the pepsi generation or the mini
>skirt revolutions.
>
>Carrol
>
>
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