[lit-ideas] Re: The Ugly Truth
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 16:22:06 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Mon, 11/5/09, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Moral Science Club" in Cambridge is another hateful
> phrase for the
> Oxonian. No such science as a _science of morality_.
Not hateful if it denoted a gathering dedicated to developing a big club with
which to beat to death the idea of a "moral science".
> I suppose "the ugly truth" is an anglophone expression.
As in "The ugly truth is they should never have tried to take the Falklands by
force"? The expression "Never let an ugly fact get in the way of a beautiful
theory" is used, but clearly does not represent a proper scientific or
falsificationist POV.
D
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