Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:03:10 -0500 From: John Mage <jmage-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: BHA: Re:SRHE hi howard, sorry. at p.33 in my copy of SRHE i find my marginal note at that line saying: ? praxis - *in* dependent ? so i too would like to see the reading that makes sense of the text as printed. john mage howard engelskirchen wrote: > > Hi All! > > At p. 33 in Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation Bhaskar explains "the > antimony of reductive analysis" as follows: > > "x cannot be reduced to or analysed or defined in terms of y, where x but > not y is (i) praxis-dependent, (ii) universal and (iii) effective in open > systems, where x=causal laws and y=constant conjunction of events." > > I assume there is a fairly critical inadvertent absence here: (i) should > read *NOT* praxis-dependent, shouldn't it? > > Anyone have a reading that makes sense of the text as printed? > > Howard > > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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