Comment at http://headymusings.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/words
Words are important, after all, if you are engaged in a discussion then you will not get very far if the two of you mean something completely different by the same word. But unless you are a philologist then debates over words should never be the most important thing.
Science is about theories (explanations) [...]
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From the Critical Cafe, 15 July 2009:
I don’t see how a theory could be ‘rational’ or ‘irrational’. It’s possible for a person to behave rationally, and therefore to adhere to a theory rationally.
It’s also possible for people to assent to the idea that a particular person is behaving (or adhering to a theory) rationally. Science [...]
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