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listening to self and listening to/with others

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 06/27/2010 - 12:05pm.

"the shift in how scientific credibility, which originally derived from first hand observations, came to depend on more abstract (less reliable?) criteria: academic affiliation, consensus among other scientists, openness about methodology"

Amuses me to notice that one can replace "scientific" with several other adjectives  ("academic," "democratic,"  "spiritual") and,  with appropriate later changes in the sentence, get the same description.   And to think, in all realms, about the value of "first hand observations" in relation to various criteria for "shared subjectivity."  Maybe its time to acknowledge/embrace the notion that not only science but all forms of inquiry necessarily oscillate between "first hand observations" ("individual subjectivity") and "shared subjectivity."  

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