Subject: Re: implied or inferred memes
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:21:53 -0400
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
On 09/18/99 10:51 the inimitable MemeLab@aol.com made this comment =8B
>So I don't think that it is necessary to provide any proof for NLP, to mak=
e
>the dynamics that I am suggesting any more plausible.
>
>-Jake
It is precisely this sort of casualness that props up the psuedosciences
and that their proponents take mighty advantage of. There is no reason,
if the authors you cited had no reference to this particular
pseudoscience in the source you cite (Philosophy in the Flesh) for you to
drag it into the field of view, unless, IMHO, you were in some way a
proponent of this and wanted to lend it some quick and dirty legitimacy.
And it is for this reason that I feel it is quite necessary to provide
proof. Quite necessary indeed.
- Wade
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