From: Kalapsyche-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:13:16 EST
Subject: Re: boundaries in flow


In a message dated 10/26/1998 9:34:25 PM EST, Unleesh-AT-aol.com writes:

<< I think we can legitimately question this approach. Simply because a notion
 "works" does not mean that it is the "only" way to work, and if we can
 illuminate certain negative side effects of that "operationalism", then it is
 only conventionality that keeps us from constructing new concepts that are
 more marvelous and specific.
  >>

I made no claim that such conceptual organizations are the only ways of
working.  I only claimed that we, or I at least, must temporarily adopt a
conceptual scheme within the space of a particular interactional context.
Presumably we have to adopt a critical attitude with respect to our conceptual
organizations that leaves them open to continuous modification to suit our
changing needs.  Feyerabrand has given an admirable account of how this is
possible and actually occurs in the sciences in his excellent book Against
Method.