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Article #652Re: Popper and Abian and other matters
From: Matthew P Wiener
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:36
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:36
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In article <1992Nov10.004237.50028@Cookie.secapl.com>, frank@Cookie (Frank Adams) writes: >>> And I think his criticism is >>>valid; it isn't clear what slogans such as "survival of the fittest" >>>can be other than tautologies. >>If you're silly enough to define fitness as survival, sure. >I think fitness really pretty much is defined as survival, as Daryl has >argued in other postings. (At least, survival of your genes.) But it's never defined as survival_of_the_species, which is what the "survival" in SOTF is referring to. >I think the real content of "survival of the fittest" is that >"fittest" is a naturalistic concept. Part of it is. I made that point several times in my postings. -- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!sagi.wistar.upenn.edu From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Re: Popper and Abian and other matters Message-ID: <96932@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 10 Nov 92 14:36:58 GMT References: <1992Oct23.160505.2580@oracorp.com> <94684@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov10.004237.50028@Cookie.secapl.com> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: sagi.wistar.upenn.edu In-reply-to: frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams)