Date:         Sat, 27 May 2006 14:04:27 -0400
Reply-To:     Joe Whitehurst <joewhitehurst@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Joe Whitehurst <joewhitehurst@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: OT: Resposnse
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> Consequently, I see a glaring contradiction, when you claim to
> have some knowledge of science based on the fact that you spent
> 10 years in pursuing a non-science degree.


Then you have missed an important point.  Our mutual view that psychology is
not a science (you say yet, I say in principle cannot ever be) is not widely
shared by most in the field and many outside the field.  The very fact that
the question arose provoked a sustained inquiry into the nature of science
which has given me much deeper appreciation of its nature than I would have
gotten had I just accepted the party line as it were.  I'm not sure much
real learning occurs outside the context of serious questions and sustained
pursuit of satisfactory answers.