File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_2003/bhaskar.0312, message 136


Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:41:07 -0600
From: "Mark A. Foster" <owner-AT-markfoster.net>
Subject: RE: BHA: scientific realism,


>>obviously, when we are talking about social objects - capitalism, feudalism, communism - it is possible that the objects themselves are constituted by individuals holding false perceptions; this, however, does not make the social object itself false (as, again, an object cannot be true or false), but it does require that a true perception of that social object contains a description of those false perceptions that constitute it (and the reason why consistently false perceptions should occur).<< 

Is false consciousness (structure) only a false perception?

Mark A. Foster * http://markfoster.net
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger" 
-- Mark Twain and Abbie Hoffman 



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