RE: virus: Re:[Fwd: Re: memes at the meme site]

Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Sat, 13 Sep 1997 18:45:26 +0100


(If my formatting seems a bit dodgy these days, please
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just moved from MS Mail.)

> Nathaniel Hall[SMTP:natehall@lgcy.com] wrote:
>
> Robin Faichney wrote:
> >
> > Does science say, if you can't prove it, you can't use it,
> > or is that scientism I'm thinking of?
> >
> > Robin
>
> If something is by is very nature undetecable by any means then of
> course it's useless.
>
There's a difference -- rather a large one -- between
detectability and provability.

> For
> something "limited" with "blind spots" don't you think its pretty
> amazing what science has already discovered?
>
Nope. What's been discovered is certainly amazing,
but science is not omniscient -- that's god-type thinking.
Scientism, in fact.

Robin