Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 10:02:32 -0400
From: Richard Moodey <moodey001-AT-mail1.gannon.edu>
Subject: Re: BHA: path dependence, critical realism and marxism


Hi Mervyn,

At 11:26 AM 05/01/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Dick,
>
>Actually, CR is anti-Cartesian, anti-foundationalist and espouses
>epistemological relativism, and all its premises are historical human
>practices.

Glad to hear it.  I thought so, but began to doubt itl


>If what you say about tacit knowledge involving faith is true, then it
>of course applies to any human discourse whatsoever and there is no
>warrant for uniquely singling out CR or Marxism as somehow based on
>faith.

I agree that CR and Marxism are not unique in involving tacit 
knowing.  What I tend to be on guard against are claims that a conceptual 
framework is fully articulate, depending upon no tacit knowing 
whatsoever.  Recognizing the pervasiveness of tacit knowing seems to me to 
have important implications for the way we engage in discourse.   To go 
back to Fine's image of the missionaries in the cooking pot, perhaps when 
we act as missionaries for any religion, philosophy, or ideology we deserve 
to be tossed into the pot.  Our discourse should be ecumenical, not 
evangelical.

Best regards,

Dick Moodey




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