Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 08:00:10 +1000 (GMT+1000)
From: Terence Hickey <pd337375-AT-student.uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: PKF: PFK a skeptic or not?


On Sat, 8 Apr 1995, Anthony Crifasi wrote:

> Sheldon Richmond wrote:
>  
> >Which logic is used in this list to conduct discussions?
>  
> Does there have to be "a logic"?  Would your term "logic" include
> mysticism or astrology?
>  
...
>
> Is this a naive question:  is there any logic which a 
>Feyerabendian will use for self-criticism? 
>
> > The best answer is probably - any logic,and no logic.  
>
...
>
>Another naive question: do Feyerabendians care about engaging in 
>self-criticism? 
>
> > This one does. 
>
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Please understand this is a well intentioned question from a
fellow "Feyerabendian" whatever that animal may really be. 

If Feyerabend teaches anything it must be to that being and knowing are
one in the process of experiencing the world - that ontology and
epistemology are correlative terms. Existentially I have concluded that
this is so. Axiologically I have problems in identifying the criterial
grounds for the saying/doing which is the existential decision-making
process.  In relation to the process of philosphical discussion itself I
am trying to work with Karl-Otto Apel's 'transcendental pragmatics'
in the context of Peirce's semiosis and 'vague' logic.

Would Anthony Crifasi share with us the logic - formal, fuzzy, astrological,
mystical, absent, situational, whatever - he utilizes in the self 
criticism which he engages in as referred to above.

Terry Hickey

Student
Philos
UofQ



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