Science, and those pesky "other ways of knowing"


	Science, and those pesky "other ways of knowing"

wildcat

11-22-2007 6:52 AM

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science, philosophy

wildcat says:

The ideal is an eventual unification of knowledge. (one of the best philosophical science blogs around)

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