April 13, 2007
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positivism
"...huge edifices of ideas such as positivism never really die. Thinking people gradually abandon them and even ridicule them among themselves, but keep the persuasively useful parts to scare away the uninformed."
John Angus Campbell, "The Comic Frame and the Rhetoric of Science: Epistemology and Ethics in Darwin's Origin," Rhetoric Society Quarterly 24, pp.2750 (1994).
Ha. Yes indeed.
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"to scare away the uninformed"
Or to keep the pop-science sheep in the pen.
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