Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:35:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Dunja Seselja <dunjaseselja-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [PKF] feyerabend & wittgenstein
To: feyerabend-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org


I don't know Holton and Suppes, but their thoughts
sound interesting. Though, interpreting Popper (I
assume that writing together "PKF/Popper" meant both
of them) in such a way would completely refute his
main theses of qualitative growth of knowledge, so I
don't think it would be really consistent with his
theory. But it would be indeed one more argument for
opposing it.
All the best,
Dunja

--- Terry Bristol <bristol-AT-isepp.org> wrote:

> I don't know of any articles but I have long held a
> similar thesis.
> Curiously, PKF/Popper and Wittgenstein ­ both
> anti-positivists (in the
> long-run) ­ are actually always moving in the same
> direction.
> Look at Holton.  Parmenidean Tradition (like
> positivism) always leads to
> math (time-symmetry).
> Heraclitean Tradition always leads to narrative
> (language; dialogue).
> To oppose one tradition is to convert to the other.
> Suppes recent book notes that in a symmetric reality
> language is relative
> (appearance not reality); e.g. Up and down.  Real or
> not?
> Suppes links up with a rather sophisticated argument
> from Aristotle.
> The Ancients spoke of the mathematical and the
> linguistic components of
> science.  (Suppes point is that all math is
> non-linguistics, and vice
> versa.)
> Good luck.
> 
> 
> On 1/9/05 10:14 AM, "Dunja Seselja"
> <dunjaseselja-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hallo everybody,
> > 
> > Does anyone maybe knows some texts on the realtion
> > between Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism and
> > Wittgenstein's language philosophy? It seems to me
> > that epist. anarchism is a direct consequence of
> > Wittgenstein's story about language games...
> > 
> > All the best,
> >  Dunja
> > 
> > 
> > 
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