What revolution?
Nov 1, 1998
"There are signs of a widespread distrust of universal and absolute statements,
especially among those who think truth is born of consensus and not of a consonance between intellect and objective reality,
" lamented a well known figure last month. Was this another big-name physicist defending their subject against the ongoing attack on science and reason by post-modern sociologists? No,
it was the Pope telling Catholic bishops to pay more attention to philosophy.
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