Re: exhaustive definition in the life sciences - an oxymoron?


"Allan C Cybulskie" <allan.c.cybulskie@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Lester Zick wrote:
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>> > No it means I prefer having an exhaustive definition for something
>> > before I try to decide whether and how to scale it.
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>> Rhetorical question - how do you ever have an exhaustive definition for
>> something that 40 different scientists have 40 different definitions
>> for?
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> If you believe this, then you do not believe in naturalized epistemology,
> which pretty much claims that generating those definitions is what you do
> FIRST,


No it doesn't. A naturalized epistemology explains the occurrence of
utterances in a scientific way.




and then you find out what they have in common and what natural
> phenomena you can study to find the relations between the definitions and
> natural phenomena to eventually come to a definition that is correct.
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> Odd for someone who agrees with Dennet that philosophy needs to be
> naturalized to reject it ...
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