From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
Subject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)
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In article <1993Apr15.161112.21772@cs.rochester.edu>, fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) writes:

|> I don't think "extra-scientific" is a very useful phrase in a discussion
|> of the boundaries of science, except as a proposed definiens.  Extra-rational
|> is a better phrase.  In fact, there are quite a number of well-known cases
|> of extra-rational considerations driving science in a useful direction.

Yeah, but the problem with holding up the "extra-rational" examples as
exemplars, or as refutations of well founded methodology, is that you
run smack up against such unuseful directions as Lysenko.  Such "extra-
rational" cases are curiosities -- not guides to methodology.
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