File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_1997/bhaskar.9707, message 85


From: "Tobin Nellhaus" <nellhaus-AT-gwi.net>
To: <bhaskar-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: Re: BHA: Non-experimental science (was "What must the ...")
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:32:45 -0400


Okay, I'm back from hiding.  Checking back on my e-mail I see the
discussion has developed a bit farther, and I don't think I can quite catch
up; ah well.  One point that might be relevant, however, is that (as I
think Ruth noted earlier) in *Dialectic* Bhaskar attempts to derive
critical realism *without* grounding it in the natural sciences or
experimentation.  Does that make it an *a priori* philosophy, in Louis's
phrase?  Somehow I don't think so, though I'm not sure I have the
background in philosophy to say for sure.  But I must admit, the position
Louis, Marshall et al have staked out--if I understand it correctly, that
we must (in effect) re-demonstrate the validity of CR within every possible
field of study--is troubling to me.  It's like having to check every
morning that the sun rises in the east and not in the northwest, a position
which obviously sounds rather empiricist.  Someone will have to clarify
this for me, or explain what I've misconstrued this time.

Ruth: sorry if I misunderstood your statements.  As Confucius says, "Who
say all those things they say I say?"

---
Tobin Nellhaus
nellhaus-AT-gwi.net
"Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce



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