Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:00:20 +0800
Subject: Re: PKF: Would Feyerabend have defended Wittgenstein and Whorfagainst 


Please do keep posting your narrative provocations Alexander - they're
very enjoyable, and spark some interesting discussion. No-one has yet
taken up your question, however, of Feyerabend's perspective on this:
rather, they have stated their own positions or attacked (what they
perceived to be) yours.

I suspect he probably would have been willing to take on Chomsky on this
one - but I'm not knowledgeable enough about Chomsky's objection to W &
W to really know. If it was that they contravene a (universalised)
rule-bounded conception of language, then I'd be more definite in
thinking he'd roll up his sleeves and jump in! This in one sense is
about a professional Chomsky divorced from his politics, but of course
in another sense these cannot be usefully divided...

David

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