Comments | inlovewithnight: WTF, post-positivism

inlovewithnight

WTF, post-positivism

Nov 15, 2006 11:56

Sometimes my assignments make my brain hurt.

Highlights of "Prospects of International Theory in a Post-Positivist Era":

I submit that 'paradigmatism'--in the specific sense of an enhanced post-positivist concern with meta-scientific constructs which incorporate integral thematic components as a precondition of scientific intelligibility-- ( Read more... )

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ruric November 15 2006, 18:54:39 UTC

They're getting paid by the number of polysyllabic words they can cram into a sentence right? And who gives a flying fuck about clarity of thought or intelligibility?

romanticalgirl November 15 2006, 19:07:25 UTC

I have no idea what any of that said or meant. The fact that you *do*? Both scares and impresses the hell out of me.

*gives you more pretty*

inathunderstorm November 15 2006, 19:21:32 UTC

presents itself as one of the most notable characteristics of the third debate.

The fifth debate PWNS, bitches.

Dude, I...no clue.

I am fining this the perfect post to try out this new icon, though.

inathunderstorm November 15 2006, 19:22:18 UTC

*finding.

::Is not at all happy to have chance to use THIS new icon in honor my grammar inability::

skipthedemon November 15 2006, 19:42:32 UTC

Hmm. I'm a humanities and law person, not a science person, but I do remember talking aboout paradigm shifts in my college level science classes ( ... )

inlovewithnight November 15 2006, 23:02:21 UTC

::nods:: Okay, thank you! That does help with that last bit. I think part of the problem here is that I'm taking this class this semester, and the scope and methods class where we'll cover things like Kuhn and Lakatos (I've read *overviews* of them, but nothing in-depth) isn't until next semester. So a lot of these third debate readings assume knowledge that our class just doesn't have yet. The prof is new, and he didn't realize where the scope and methods class fit in when he made the syllabus.

wildrosesings November 16 2006, 05:20:52 UTC

perspectivism paradigmatism...these are not words. The writers just made them up. I'm sure of it.

Ya know, I just read a great Connie Willis short story that spoofed this EXACT trend. "In the Late Cretaceous", in the book Impossible Things.

I have some articles somewhere around here on the importance of paradigms in science, but it will take me a while to dig up the references.

Also, hi!