Monday, April 16, 2018

Gregory Bateson

From Steps to an Ecology of Mind

About 50 years of work in which thousands of clever men have had their share have, in fact, produced a rich crop of several hundred heuristic concepts, but, alas, scarcely a single principle worthy of a place in the list of fundamentals. It is all too clear that the vast majority of the concepts of contemporary psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, sociology, and economics are totally detached from the network of scientific fundamentals....

[E]xcessive preference for induction ... must always lead to something like the present state of the behavioral sciences  a mass of quasi-theoretical speculation unconnected with any core of fundamental knowledge.

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