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"...Thornless takes over the surface of Kuhn's discussion of paradigm shift while ignoring the core of Kuhn's treatment. The pressure toward a paradigm shift from a current theory to a brand new theory lies within the current theory itself." - straight or crooked thinking?

— May 12, 2017 09:58AM

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Adrian Buck is on page 191 of 1000

The folklore of our culture, told to us when our rationality was still developing, has left an indelible mark on us all.

— May 27, 2017 06:16AM

Adrian Buck is on page 191 of 1000

The school system ideally should teach children about the limitations of their own reasoning, and the propensity for magical thinking in all of us.

— May 27, 2017 06:14AM

Adrian Buck is on page 191 of 1000

It would seem, then, that a "scientific validation of psi" would be a contradiction of terms; if psi exists, science as we know it cannot

— May 27, 2017 06:12AM

Adrian Buck is on page 180 of 1000

...even respectable publishing houses ask only two questions: "Will the book sell?" and "Will I get used?"

— May 25, 2017 06:35AM

Adrian Buck is on page 175 of 1000

In astronomy and geology, one does not have replicability in the sense of being able to set up conditions so as to observe an effect. Yet, in both astronomy and geology, everything is publicly observable.

— May 25, 2017 06:32AM

Adrian Buck is on page 170 of 1000

Unfortunately, psychologists and other social scientists often make many of the same basic errors - and that's before the journalist's get started 😆

— May 24, 2017 04:19AM

Adrian Buck is on page 166 of 1000

The point to be learned to be learned from Newton's demonstration is the people's may be based in part on information that they have unconsciously "collected". - this is intuition, first language acquisition is exactly like this.

— May 24, 2017 04:16AM

Adrian Buck is on page 163 of 1000

Dream telepathy - much more like my experience

— May 24, 2017 04:13AM

Adrian Buck is on page 156 of 1000

One must also show the event does not also occur in [psi's] absence.

— May 21, 2017 05:34AM

Adrian Buck is on page 155 of 1000

...the outcome is INDETERMINABLE although it is not INDETERMINATE

— May 21, 2017 05:32AM