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  %SELF REFERENTIAL THEORY GRAD SCHOOL RESEARCH SEX+860225
 %RESPECT OBJECTIVE REFLEXIVE COLLUSION SCI EDUCATE 860225

     Self  referential  theories  lead  to   non-objective
predictions and anticipations which are likely to:  (1) be
self-fulfilling,  (2)  self-defeating and/or (3)  call for
the  violation  of taboos/collusions to  verify/disconfirm
the self-referential theory.  None of these is very likely
to elicit healthy community respect and support.  Thus few
people are likely to  articulate self-referential theories
because such  articulations  are unlikely to "pay off"  in
self-respect.   People are not likely to deliberately  act
in ways which obviously will undermine their self respect.
Their theory of self-respect inhibits such  behavior,   so
their theory is unarticulated.

     The  split  of  natural  philosophy  into   objective
quantitative   sciences  and  non-quantitative   reflexive
philosophy  was in  part  motivated by the desire to avoid
dealing  with  self-referential  theories  to become  more
unbiased.   The split was  based upon the self-referential
(but   not articulated) theory that the avoidance of self-
referential theories and the  avoidance  of the testing of
self-referential  theories  would  lead  away  from   bias
towards  objective  truth that would make the  people  who
were following that lead  into being far more truthful and
objective,   less biased people.   Instead,  the split has
lead  those people to conceal  from  themselves their  own
biases and to pretend that  they  have no self-referential
theory  which  might lead to some particular bias  against
perceptions which are inconsistent with their actual self-
referential theories.  What has occurred is the inhibition
of   articulations   of  the   existing   self-referential
theories.

     The  whole educational process of scientists is based
upon  an  unarticulated self-referential theory which  can
not be tested because it is unarticulated.   The theory of
science  education is not articulated because it is  self-
referential  in  violation of  scientists'  value/ideal of
always being objective.  To articulate a theory of science
education  would violate scientists'  professional  taboos
and  invite  rejection  by peers.In a similar  way  it  is
virtually  impossible to successfully articulate a  theory
of sex education because of the conflict between trying to
be objective and trying to be open and honest with respect
to sexuality.   The articulation  of  such a theory  would
invite the testing of it,  in violation of many taboos and
collusions.  Better not to articulate the theory and avoid
much trouble!
                                                                                                                               
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