Re: My two pesos on Theories/Paradigms.

From: John Wilkins (johnSPAM_at_wilkins.id.au)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:04:06 +1000

Philip Deitiker <Donevenask@worlnet.att.net> wrote:

> I have made a good effort to apply the basic modalities of
> propoganda identification to these theorist.
...
> I will hand Wilkins a quote from Vigilante et al. 1991 which
> shows the degree of bias in formulating a theory.
...

None of which gives me any better idea on the nature of a theory in
anthropology, I'm afraid, although it might hint at how theory is
formulated and applied in genetics and phylogenetics, which I already
had an idea of. But thanks.

Incidentally, bias in the formulation of a theory is widely regarded as
irrelevant - what counts in most sciences is the lack of bias in the
confirmation, disconfirmation and acceptance or not of it by the rest of
the discipline. 

-- 
John S. Wilkins john@wilkins.id.au
web: www.wilkins.id.au blog: evolvethought.blogspot.com
God cheats