Backchat from Woody

[Les Schaffer <schaffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jurriaan:

> That should really be read "A-men".

what are A-men???

> You should check out the swimming pool, that would give you some new
> inspirations.

the movie or the body of water?

>  It is just that, in all these discussions about the "scientificity"
>  of social science, I sometimes like to refer to astrophysics and
>  astronomy, the reason being, that there problems are posed as
>  regards scientific method which are logically similar to problems
>  in social science, for example, criteria for testability,
>  confirmation, verification and falsifiability, how to handle a
>  situation with many unknowns with a bold hypothesis, and so on. It
>  involves a considerable amount of speculative thought often.

i think about this a lot. i guess our topic list is growing.

les