Religing Marxism, was AM Historical Materialism 3

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Religing Marxism, was AM Historical Materialism 3
by Davies, Daniel
04 February 2002 15:32 UTC

> As far as the
>cognitive aspects go, reliion in the sense that I use it--imperviousness to

>criticism, treating theoriesa sa rticles of faith--is opposed to a
>scientific approach. jks

Of course, in this sense, an awful lot of people who hold down jobs as
science professors (for example Richard Dawkins) would be classified as
"cognitively religious" :-)

cheers

dd

^^^^^^^^^
CB: Since natural scientists have already borrowed the term "law" from jurisprudence as one of their most important concepts, perhaps biologists and physicists would like to borrow "rebuttable presumption " too. An ex posterieri rebuttable presumption: that's what a scientific law or axiom is.