File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_1996/96-09-09.212, message 27


Date: 09 Aug 96 18:05:53 EDT
From: Chris Burford <100423.2040-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: rts2-12


OK.

Same problem as before. Looks good and sensible. Some of the 
language and formulations obscure, and may conceal hidden depths.

A caution I have is that it is such an attractive structure
for an argument to set up two models and then a third which 
answers the weaknesses of the other two. 

How widespread is the characterisation of schools of philosophy
being on the one hand either empiricist or on the other realist/idealist?

And is there really a bimodal distribution on this continuum, with 
some real justification for talking about two models rather than
a spectrum.

For example I may have missed the latest research on psychosis, 
but I understand  that it is hard to demonstrate a bimodal
distibution between schizophrenia and manic depressive disorder in 
research, and in clinical practice the boundary presents problems
everyday. Everyday I wonder about the "reality" of schizophrenia.


And a technical question because I am picking up a  
tendency among admirers of Bhaskar to intials, 
what is TMSA?
If there are more of these, at some stage a glossary would help.

Otherwise I presume we will soon be moving on to the next
passage.

Chris Burford
London.




   

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