From: invalid@invalid.net   
      
   On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 09:28:10 +0100, David Mitchell wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 06:42:55 -0400, Janice wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:21:15 +0100, David Mitchell wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> In the sense that one can, sometimes, extract some useful commonalities   
   >>> from anecdotal evidence, perhaps.   
   >>>   
   >>> Otherwise, they have very little use.   
   >>   
   >> Unless you happen to be a folklorist, or an anthropologist, or a   
   >> psychologist, or a social historian ...   
   >   
   > True; but I was assuming a different context: that of actually "verifying"   
   > something.   
   >   
   > It being the topic and all ;-)   
      
   That was the original subject of the thread, but I thought the   
   discussion had expanded to the usefulness of anecdotes in general when   
   people started talking about phenomenology.   
      
   I didn't mean to go the straw man route. :-)   
      
   P.S. Some social historians may wish they didn't have to resort to   
   anecdotal evidence.  If one wants to learn about 17th century life, as   
   I've been doing lately, one has to rely heavily on the massive anecdotal   
   evidence of the great English lecher, Samuel Pepys. :-)   
      
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