Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:59:54 +1000 (EST)
From: Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan-AT-qut.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Hans and Bakhsar : Dialectics on its head


At 09:01 AM 9/17/96 +0000, you wrote:
>
>I don't particularly want to discuss what Tom O' Lincoln said
>to you once about Althusser. But he was probably right.


Adam, 

You do not often annoy me but frankly comrade this does.  My objectilon is
always to the thought police in whatever guise they take.  And standing and
bellowing "wanker" at an intellectual may earn you brownie points in the
halls of ISO but not with me.


>However, what stands out about your message was that you
>told me virtually nothing about Bakhsar.
>


Now you say I told you virtually nothing about Bhaskar.  Jeezuss what do you
expect?  Join the Bhaskar list or even better  still read Realist Theory of
Science for your self.  

You are beginning to remind me of my Journalism Colleagues.  They have been
primitive positivists for ever, so it seems, and they lived in blissful
ignorance thruout the epistemological crisis of the 70s and 80s.  Now that
the New Realism is here they are suddenly up to date again, without ever
having to read a bloody book.

Somewhat pissed  off, Comrade

Gary



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