At 09:32 PM 5/18/99 -0400, psypher wrote:
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>...they popped out of my noggin, I could probably think up more, but
>those are the assumptions that have been dominant in the postings of
>the most ardent advocates of the primacy of science on this list.
I concede that most of us probably believe that wholes are composed of parts. Do you have any counterexamples in mind?
As for the rest, I suggest you question your own assumptions about our views.
>...I'd have to cite influence from Neil Postman's "Technopoly",
>Jeremy Rifkin's "Biosphere Politics" and "Entropy" and most of the
>other stuff I've been reading lately.
You believed Rifkin's "Entropy"? Did you know that the earth is in fact not a closed system?
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