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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
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>
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