From: Ant McWatt (antmcwatt@hotmail.co.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2005 - 21:41:12 GMT
Scott Roberts stated to David Buchanan February 7th 2005:
>Your post is all about recognizing other forms of attaining knowledge. I
>agree with all that, and have never said otherwise. But as so often, you do
>not read what I say, but go off on a tangent to provide support for
>something that I do not dispute. I just, like Wilber, think that the word
>"empirical" should be restricted to the form of attaining knowledge
>"grounded in sensory experience", and not extended to those other forms.
Scott,
Why should the term "empirical" be highlighted for special treatment out of
the countless terms employed in philosophy and philosophology in various
contexts?
I'm just thinking of Northrop's (and Pirsig's assertion!) that what ever
particular term you use for a concept isn't critical as long as you define
clearly what you understand by it.
Possibly, following David, we should use Pirsig's understandings of
particular terms when on a Pirsig Discussion group (rather than Wilber or
whoever) otherwise we will be talking over each other?
Yours pragmatically,
Anthony.
‘The philosophically important thing about any common-sense term as it
enters into any philosophical theory is not its bare dictionary meaning, but
the particular contextual meaning usually unique to the philosophical system
in question. [For instance] philosophical materialists, idealists, dualists
and neutral monists all admit the existence of what common sense denotes by
the term ‘mind,’ yet there is all the difference in the world in the ways in
which they analyze and conceive of this datum.’ (Northrop, 1947, p.80)
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