I'm a little baffled by this comment! The hard sciences are all about representation and naming, and that's because they don't have quite the same difficulties with "truth". So long as the objects your are dealing with are psychosocial, there's a plausible argument to be made that their names constrain them: society is all about enforcing the strong Whorfian hypothesis. But you really have to be a hardcore nominalist (or a hardcore conspiracy theorist, I guess) to believe that about physics... no?
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Date: 2006-08-26 02:44 pm (UTC)