From: "Jamie Morgan" <jamie-AT-morganj58.fsnet.co.uk> Subject: Re: BHA: Are we dialectical materialist realists or empiricist realists? Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:39:25 +0100 Gunter, true - more specifically I meant that SEPM and other responses to consciousness/idea etc are responses to the conceptual incoherence of behaviurism etc. in the philoosphy of mind and as such are attempts to be plausible yet SEPM etc. do not contain a how, merely a 'this makes more sense' Jamie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Günter Minnerup" <g.minnerup-AT-unsw.edu.au> To: <bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 3:17 PM Subject: Re: BHA: Are we dialectical materialist realists or empiricist realists? > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:24:36 +0100, Jamie Morgan wrote: > > >We can eliminate forms of argument that cannot sustain their own possibility > >but we lack the tools to move beyond that postition. > > Isn't that because there cannot be any such purely contemplative tools, and isn't that therefore where the category of "praxis" comes in? I'm thinking of Marx > theses on Feuerbach here. > Truth, in other words, is not an epistemological but an ontological category. We could only find those "lacking tools" by committing the "epistemic fallacy". No? > > Gnter > > Gnter Minnerup > Visiting Fellow > Centre for European Studies/School of History > University of New South Wales > Sydney NSW 2052 > Tel. (+61 2) 9385 1363 (work) > Tel. (+61 2) 9398 3646 (home) > Email g.minnerup-AT-unsw.edu.au > > > > > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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