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On Fri, 25 Apr 2036, Derek Gatherer wrote:
>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.
Can I ask what this refers to? I've brought up physics recently, but the
application was direct, not analogical. I haven't noticed any others.
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