[Re:] narrative science was Re: ... conceptual issues

[Thomas Schlemmermeyer]

Yet, the narrative component remains an important ingredient of Natural History.
Of course, one can do some hammering here and there.....But there still is some
need to combine the results and add some educated guesses just in order to have
a nice and representable story.....

On (         Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:16:33 -0700
),         Curtis Clark <jcclark at CSUPOMONA.EDU> wrote:


>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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