At 2:47 PM -0500 2/20/01, Louis_Schmier wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, jim clark wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Paul Brandon wrote:
>> > but the bottom line is:
>> > Do any philosophers engage in the systematic collection of
>> > data, and use it to justify their statements?
>
>Of course. Whitehead and Russell to name just two in the 20th century
>that come to mind.
I wasn't aware that they'd done it.
Reference?
>But, I'd be careful about throwing myself prostrate before the god of
>statistical data
Who said anything about statistics?
>and reducing the complicated and complex human condition
>to a bank of incomplete numbers subjectively interpreted.
And when did you stop beating your wife? ;-)
>Am I about to get into trouble?
Probably.
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