Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:07:32 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: BHA: logical norms


Hiya Colin and Gary, et al,

Thanks Colin for those page references.  I'll read `em.  (Also, yes -
"straight philosophy" meant analytic stuff!)

Thanks too for the quotation and your own questions.  I guess my (admittedly
naive) response to the heart of the passage you cited,

>To the contrary, DCR, with its emphasis on ontological depth and structural
>causation identifies the common ground in contradictory propositions, not
>sublating them, but situating them in structural and causal contexts in the
>rythmics of geo-history

is to wonder if it isn't a fancy way of saying what I suggested before,
namely, that the norms regarding the logical relationships between isolated
statements don't really tell us very much about causal relationships in the
world.

So in way, then, Gary, although I'm curious about the questions that you
understood me to be asking, I think that in this case my question has to do
not so much with the definition of contradiction, or with the relationship
between analytic and dialectic thought, but rather with the relationship
between the internal structure of thought and causal relations in the world.

See what I mean?

Anyhow, thanks for the responses.  I'm off to mull.

Ruth



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