Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 03/11/05


Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:49:54 GMT

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:38:46 -0500, "robert j. kolker"
<nowhere@nowhere.net> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>Albert Wagner wrote:

[. . .]

>Materialism and reductionism are empirically falsifiable, so they are
>not religious principles. They are empistemological principles based on
>experience with techniques that have produced the best results (so far).

Technically materialism and reductionism are philosophical prejudices
and not empirically falsifiable.

Regards - Lester



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