miércoles, junio 11, 2003

"Dialogo entre Paul Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos y Alex garrido"

Paul: [...] how can you decide to reject, say, the standards of Aristotelian
philosophy along with its 'basic' value judgements in order to replace them with
the standards and the basic value judgements of Galileo's or Newton's science?

Alex Garrido: oh well, is a simple stuff. you know, i my point of view.. some false feelings of truth is like..mmm is.. like is like ..how is it Imre?

Imre: On the basis of a 'rational reconstruction'.

Alex Garrido: yes yes.. it juts ike that... was.... like Imre said... like... how you said ?

Imre: On the basis of a 'rational reconstruction'.


Paul: On the basis of a rational reconstruction of what?

Alex Garrido: of what?... what "what" are you talking about?
Imre: On the basis of the rational reconstruction of science from the point of
view of modern science.

Alex Garrido: but, but...

Imre: [...] There is, therefore, nothing wrong in appraising past beliefs
according to a given norm or theory of rationality. On the contrary, such
judgements lead to historical data which is not easily obtainable in other
ways... Any appraisal of 'rationality' of this kind is doubly desirable: the
historian learns 'new' facts, the philosopher checks his own standards.

"...each of the three classes [inductivism, simplicism, falsificationism]
determines a different historiographical outlook, and if they are false they
create historical myths...This big historical myth making is alive and well."

Alex Garrido: LOOK, I TOLD YOU a simple stuff!!!