[lit-ideas] Re: Scientific Method Dead! Postmodernism Not the Villain! Could it be?
From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:06:04 -0700
I'm slow; I don't understand why a new source of patterned data
implies that we can abandon the task of deciphering what those
patterns mean. Would it be right to draw analogy between Google's
sampling or scooping and Victorian collectors, whose bulging drawers
of dead stuff in Natural History museums some people are still trying
to understand?
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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