From: "Simon Beesley" <simonb-AT-beesleys.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Habitus
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:48:29 +0100


> that was such a cute request that I cannot resist answering. However,
> which part of the definition you did not hear?
>

Well, Ania, I can hear it all but don't like the sound of it -- I mean its
incorrigible free-floating nominalism, its semantic polymormphous perversity,
and, most monstrous of all, the claim that "all we need is an epistemological
foundation". Whatever can you mean? An epistemological foundation or truss is
the last thing I need and in any case I was brought up to believe that science
has long since absorbed all the foundational material for epistemology there
is -- alas! -- leaving absolutely nothing for the rest of us. The
epistemological cupboard is bare and has been for centuries. Away with your
epistemological foundations and your consensual anarchy! With all due respect
and in the nicest possible way, I say to you: Humbug!

Regards
Simon




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