I suspect most people nowadays find it incomprehensible and meaningless rather than absurd, and absurdity is what he wants here.
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The Trinity was a standard example of absurdity in the past; he’s showing his age.
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Latour says the opposite, science is as political as anything else, but with the trick of including aspects of nature in their coalitions.
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Well… I think Tooby is also making the point that science is as political as anything else.
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I wouldn’t have chosen it either, although for different reasons than you probably
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Nicely put!
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I don't like this loose use of "stupid" and "rational," but the point is clear enough.
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Tribal dynamics do not harmonize well with the falsifiability and belief revision required by a competent pursuit of science.
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my read of article: science based "rationality" valuing coalitions are untenable snf wound science, often fatally...
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...was there an emergence of a 'scientism coalition' in the 20th cntry ( john dewey)?...
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