re: the solid reality of the canon

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Subject: re: the solid reality of the canon
From: Ania Lian (ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au)
Date: Sun 23 Jan 2000 - 23:09:18 MET 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:09:18 +1000 (EST)
From: Ania Lian <ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au>
Subject: re: the solid reality of the canon

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On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Charles Nelson wrote:

> I believe the following came from Charlie Hendricksen:
> >The big, bang, a common ancestor, and black holes are all built on
> > very solid chains of inference. Nothing is taken on faith and all are
> > viewed with skepticism, even as the inferential chain is added to each
> > day.

> How solid can a chain of inference be? Is there really much skepticism
> on how solid building chains of inference is? Is it an article of
> faith that nothing in science is taken on faith? One book, among
> others, that deals with such questions is

One of the resources my husband and I use for teaching about how to teach
languages is a wonderful series of interviews with an Australian physicist
prof. Paul Davis. When we listen to Paul Davis, or make attempts to expand
our realities through readings like Hawking or say Leakey etc, we find out
how unsolid things are around. The most solid things I have ever found
were in writings about how to teach second language. I can never get over
the fact that while the world of other sciences is filled with question
marks everywhere, and arguments about anything, the solidity of grammar,
lexis and sounds gives us the feeling that there is something on which we
can always lean: the linguist!

:-)
Ania Lian

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