Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:12:50 -0500
Subject: Re: Foucault's Method
From: Asher Haig <ahaig-AT-warped-reality.com>


on 1/30/01 10:00 PM, Bryan C at kirk728-AT-hotmail.com wrote:

> I do want to keep up with the power and the subject debate but I have to
> kick this Idea around.
> 
> How can F's method be trusted?  He said himself that sciences only
> contain but don't describe the phenomena they seek to explain.  How is
> F's method any more reliable than the physician's?  It isn't.  There are
> an infinite number of variables that go into each geneology.  F cannot
> discover, nor take into account each of them.  The reality is that
> history is in a state of chaos, there are no rules of the game.  The
> rules are human inventions that we use to satisfy our craving to explain
> the void.  There is no reason why F is better that Hegel.
> 
> Also, how can I know that I percieve reality?  All I can know is myself.
> How do I know that anyone recieves this.  It could just be my
> imagination or a great deceiver, I could be in the Matrix.
> 
> There is no way I can see to come to conclusions from the study of
> history.
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Yes but in order for you to make these arguments you have to concede that
Foucault's depictions of the world are/were accurate. With that, there goes
the entirety of your argument - it either has no basis or must concede that
which it attacks. 

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Asher Haig           ahaig-AT-warped-reality.com
Dartmouth 2004