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Kenneth: (quoting Dan)
Why do people who object to memes....etc?
Derek:
I don't object to the use of the word memes as a whole, merely to its use to
describe unobservable mental things or events. Trying to pretend that it
doesn't matter that the events are unobservable doesn't help matters, but
actually makes them worse. Trying, as the internalists do, to bring in yet
more dubious analogies from physics suggests a need to read Lakatos on what
happens to research programmes when the ad hoc input exceeds the empirical
output.
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