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In a message dated 97-05-24 14:34:02 EDT, Ross [Emmett]writes: 
 
<< Skinner critiques the same tendency, calling it the  
 "mythology of doctrine" -- the search for everyone who wrote something on  
 a topic of contemporary interest, under the false impression that any  
 particular idea remains stable over all time, and does not evolve through  
 use in particular contexts. >> 
 
There is a useful -- nay profound -- discussion of the individuation 
of  'particular ideas' through time in David Hull's important _Science as 
a Process:  An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual 
Development of Science_.  Hull's discussion is particularly effective in 
that it exploits Hull's unusual competence in the history and science 
of biology to illustrate his thought provoking investigation of the problem. 
 
Greg Ransom 
Dept. of Philosophy 
UC-Riverside 
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