[Wikipedia-l] pitching an idea

[Ray Saintonge]

Wouter Steenbeek wrote:

>> Wouter Steenbeek (musiqolog at hotmail.com) [050418 03:20]:
>>
>> > Steve's proposal is interesting and can be defended from a 
>> philosophical
>> > point of view. Indeed most philosophers involved with science agree 
>> that
>> > objectivity is an illusion, and the quasi-objectivity we reach in e.g.
>> > encyclopaedias is only a broad consensus within one culture.
>>
>> Except the ones who are actually scientists. "Sorry, evolution has been
>> voted out of science."
>
> You didn't get the point! Indeed, scientists are given a big 
> authority, so people, especially encyclopaedia-makers, use their 
> theories to form their opinion. So, in our culture, the view of 
> scientists is especially favoured among encyclopaedia-makers, because 
> they are supposed to have justificated their views by means of an 
> elaborate dialectic process, not by dogmatic tradition. On the other 
> hand, for other people the Bible might have a bigger authority. They 
> form a different image of the world around us than we do, and than 
> most scientists do.

This is a classic battle between two claimants to infallibility.

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