Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:54:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Gregory {Greg} Downing <downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: A theory about theory [was Anyone get Gass?]


At 09:10 AM 1/21/98 -0500, you (Reg Lilly) wrote:
>positivism is (an grotesquely
>exaggerated) response to a certain demand that data places on all theorizing, a
>demand to return 'zu den Sachen selbst' even if we will never arrive at them in
>all their purity.
>

Or, "wie es eigtentlich gewesen" (how it properly/really was) to use von
Ranke's 19C historicist formulation. Or, the "Ding an sich" (thing in
itself), to use Kant's epistemic-ontological one. Not that any construct is
identical to wie es eigentlich gewesen, but some maybe are less flawed and
imperfect (more inclusive, more accurate) than others, and perhaps not
coincidentally more functional in various ways. Hence, veritism as (not
completely attainable) goal, rather than unsustainably claimed attainment.
What would "Weasel-veritism" look like in German?

Gregory {Greg} Downing, at greg.downing-AT-nyu.edu or downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu 



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