Definitions (Evolution)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Tuesday, April 01, 2008, 09:37 (5862 days ago) @ whitecraw

whitecraw wrote: Each knowledge community characteristically is held by its members to be the only knowledge community, for the simple reason that they literally cannot (for obvious reasons) conceive any practice other than their own to be 'scientific'; i.e. pertaining to knowledge as such. - So does this mean that you and I just can never agree on anything because we belong to mutually incompatible "knowledge communities"? - Would it be correct to identify yourself as belonging to a "postmodernist" knowledge community, and myself to a "rationalist empiricist" community? - In this case how will our differences ever be resolved? Do we have to wait for some "paradigmatic historical case or episode" to occur?