narrative science was Re: ... conceptual issues

[Curtis Clark]

At 12:08 PM 8/25/99 -0300, Thomas Schlemmermeyer wrote:
>Much money, wasted efforts and so on could be saved, in my humble opinion,

>if
>biologists aligned more to approach d.), confessing that their science has

>a
>rather narrative nature and not so much a hypothetico-deductive one.

Just because we have lots of experience hammering nails with our bare
fists, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't take advantage of a hammer when
it is available.


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