From: "Paul Marsden" <PaulMarsden@email.msn.com>
To: "memetics" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: re. Social science as very limited
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 19:19:59 +0100
Bob Grimes wrote
>I believe I understand your reaction and the desire to be scientific but
>hesitate to remind you that the psycho/social/anthropological world is very
>limited in its "scientific armament" except where dealing with historical
>artifacts, dating, and more recently with linguistics and PET scan
>technology, etc.
Please explain this to me and the rest of my faculty of social SCIENCE -
Perhaps we and our tools are very limited, do please elaborate. Owning a
PET scanner doesn't make you a scientist nor does arcane symbolic language
which is not grounded in empirical events.
Paul Marsden
Graduate Research Centre in the Social Sciences
University of Sussex
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