Revolution

[Tom DiBenedetto]

On Mon, 30 Sep 1996 09:55:09 -0700, Richard Zander wrote:

>Regarding Hyam's message about paradigm shifts (no, I won't point out his
>spelling mistake), I think there is no such thing happening. There IS a
>great deal of enthusiam for using the computer to deal with complexity,
>and it is showing up in chaos theory, fuzzy logic, virtual reality, and
>even postmodernism, as well as cladistics. This is an incremental
>advance, not a paradigm shift in that each of these new fields prescribes
>a monomethodical solution that totally replaces all others...nihilism in
>a nutshell.

Nihilism? I didnt realize that that was the appropriate word for the
development of a coherent and consistent methodology. If you are
right about that though, wouldnt that represent a paradigm shift
(since I was not aware that nihilism was previously paradigmatic in
any of the fields you mention)?
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Tom DiBenedetto
Fish Division
Museum of Zoology
University of Michigan