Re: Philosophy before science ? (was : Seman

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From: Christopher Green
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 16:51

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In article <schiller.726316570@hpas5> schiller@prl.philips.nl (schiller c) writes:
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>However my son ! Facts are never presecribed by theory, facts are the 
>results of observation.
>
And, as Father Putnam and Grandfather Eddington before him pointed out, 
observations are informed by theories. Thus contrary to phenomenalist
twaddle, we've got a real chicken-egg problem here that will not be cleared 
away easily.



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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1

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Subject: Re: Philosophy before science ? (was : Seman
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