Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 08:27:14 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: PKF: Re: PKF a skeptic or not?


Which logic is used in this list to conduct discussions?  None in 
general?  Whatever logic each prefers?  How do individuals with different 
logics critically discuss each others views?
	Feyerabend used the reductio to internally criticize and refute
positions--i.e critical rationalism leads to relativism, and so is self-
refuting.
	What's the moral of the story?  Are all positions absurd, except
the position that I have no fixed position?  I sting like a bee and dance 
like a butterfly.
	Is the statement that I have no position itself a position?  It 
assumes that it is possible to live without assumptions, presuppositions, 
expectations, viewpoints...   This assumption that holding no assumptions 
is possible is actually empirically false.  All organisms have 
expectations or assumptions.  Hence, philosophers who attempt to live 
without assumptions are self-delusionary.

OK.   I live with assumptions--but no fixed assumptions..  I change 
viewpoints on whim.  Today I am a critical rationalist, tomorrow a 
post-modernist, next day Zen...
	All positions are absurd, even this statement itself that all 
positions are absurd is absurd...infinitely nested statements declaring 
the absurdity of the statement nested...

	This position that all positions are absurd ...infinite nest...
is invulnerable to all criticism.

Is this a naive question:  is there any logic which a Feyerabendian will 
use for self-criticism?  Another naive question: do Feyerabendians care 
about engaging in self-criticism?

Thanks...
Sheldon Richmond


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