Thanks for exploring "The Origins of a Science"


Gordon Hill wrote:
Although one of the least technically qualified participants in
talk.origins...

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Hypothesis: Every science began with the rational musing of
philosophers and evolved into an orderly discipline.

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As always, your responses to what is a puzzler to me, yields the
insights and humor I could find nowhere else.

Thanks. I'm off to read more. While this was prompted by Colin
McGinn's autobiography, The Making of a Philosopher, I forgot to give
credit to InSearch of Memory by Eric Kandel which led me to the Society
for Neuroscience at http://sfn.org/ which strikes me as what could
happen as philosophers ruminate over the cross boundary inferences of
basic sciences.

No attempt is made to give credit to anyone for anything, rather I am
intrigued by what appears to be an evolution in thinking (apologies to
John Wilkins if they are owed).

It is one thing to be told something, as the more certain who post here
are eager to do, and quite another to enjoy the intellectual
encouragement I find in the more basic topics.

What a pleasure. All the best, Gordon Hill

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