File spoon-archives/marxism2.archive/marxism2_1996/96-07-10.220, message 83


Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 01:29:00 +0000
Subject: Re: Schrodinger's Cat


jajohnso-AT-interserv.com wrote:
The tests,> extensions, and articulations of the existing theory are, of 
course, challenges> that require substantial creativity and originality. 
 I don't think that Kuhn> would hold his statement to mean otherwise, 
only that normal science is> "unoriginal" in that it does not seek to 
create mew theory.
> 

Lisa replies:  I agree too, Jeff, it holds as long as 'theory' refers to 
a sufficiently general level of understanding.  [That term is also 
subject to a wide variety of uses.]

Lisa


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