>Since we were recently discussing the 'ought/can' paradoxes, I thought McEvoy was trying to say that Popper proposes something that _opposes_ what scientists (like Hawkin, Medawar, Eccles) are doing (as a sort of counterfactual).< I don't believe we were discussing them here. Robert Paul Department of Dialectics Mutton College ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html