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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:55:18 -0400
From: iversteg <iversteg-AT-temple.edu>
Subject: BHA: A Quick Question


Hi List,
I have a quick question relating to historical explanation.
Following Wittgenstein, Arthur Danto said in the 1960s that
we explain history only insofar as we have considered it under
some verbal description.  This seems to be some sort of conceptual
relativism of the Quinean (again influenced by Wittgenstein)
sort.
What would Critical Realism say to this?
Thanks,
Ian

Ian Verstegen
Department of Art History
Temple University
8th Floor Ritter Hall Annex
Philadelphia, PA 19122
tel: (215) 204-7837
fax: (215) 204-6951
http://astro.temple.edu/~iversteg



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