From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:12:24 EST
Subject: Re: Relativity


In a message dated 1/22/99 7:03:17 AM Pacific Standard Time,
levi_bryant-AT-yahoo.com writes:

<<  what way are we able to reduce cultural systems to
 biological systems?  Is it a clean reduction, or are there certain
 interests involved (something on the order of Foucault's epistemes). 
 What does it mean to say that were all the same?  Ok, I'm pulling out
 classic pomo charges, but I guess I'd like to see stronger arguments
 supporting such a view...  >>

I think perhaps a Spinozist response that makes biology itself multiple, in
question, uncertain : we don't even know what a body can do. Therefore
grounding us in biology doesn't necessarily ground us in anything more
certain. Unless we're talking about grounding us in Linnaeus -- but that's
another question altogether.