Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/23
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Eric,
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I guess I'm what you'd call a "strict behaviorist," and I can tell y=
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behaviorism is NOT a voodoo science. In fact the very "raison d'=EA=
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of behaviorism is that whereas Freudianism and all the other -isms o=
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psychology ARE voodoo science, behaviorism applies the principles an=
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methods of REAL science to human behavior for the first time. So yo=
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should read more about it, because it represents perhaps the greates=
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and most profound revolution in all of human history. B. F. Skinner=
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"About Behaviorism" is a good place to start (albeit dry reading).
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You were right the first time (i.e., in your earlier message, where =
you wrote that "Science is quite inadequate in any art"): science an=
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art are mutually exclusive (and, I would say, complementary) fields.=
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Art Peterson
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:an objective evaluation of leica M lenses: =
Author: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us at Internet
Date: 4/22/98 11:06 PM
At 10:21 PM 4/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>If you're asserting "there is no explaining taste" ; why, then, that m=
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>so because we do not yet possess a widely appreciated or understood
science of
>values; although, some of us are very busy developing one at the present=
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If one is a strict behaviorist, one might think someday there will be a =
unified field theory of art, no? =
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I think behaviorism is voodoo science. :-) I don't even believe chaos =
theory. Though if it's true, we define it every day right here on the LUG=
!
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
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Stay alert - you can observe a lot by watching. Yogi Berra