Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 09:57:25 +0100
Subject: Re: BHA: 2.6


Hi Everyone,

I was in Hay on Wye this weekend and thought I should share this book I
came across with you all.

Jane Azevedo, Mapping Reality: An Evolutionary Realist Methodology for the
Natural and Social Sciences (State Uni of New York Press: Albany, 1997).

Then there's this, a much better account of the epistemic fallacy than RB
gives us anywhere. It is quoted in Harland's book on Superstructuralism.

"When a man howls or shouts or threatens, we
other animals understand him very well! Then his
attention is not in that other world! But he barks
in a way all his own - he speaks. And this has
enabled him to invent what does not exist and to
overlook what exists. As soon as he gives a thing
a name he ceases to see the thing itself; he only 
hears the name that he gave it or sees it written...
For him, everything in the world is merely a pretext
for talking to other men or for talking to himself.
(Funeral oration, by Orfeo the dog on Augusto the man,
in Manuel de Unamuno's novel Mist)


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Dr. Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales
Aberystwyth
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