From: skutvik@online.no
Date: Mon Nov 17 2003 - 22:25:35 GMT
Matt and All
(referring to your post for me of 15 Nov.)
I wrote a long piece in the traditional style addressing the points one
by one, but this statement baffled me completely so I'll limit this
message to it.
> The pragmatist point is, yes, that it is a truism that opinions emanate
> from human beings. The pipe dream of SOM is that Reality will have
> opinions of its own so that it will be able to tell us when we are right,
> and that we don't have just opinions, but absolutely certain knowledge.
> Pragmatists want simply to take the truism and stop analogizing reality to
> people.
Are you trying to show that no analogizing (generalization) is
possible? Can't be, your statement is supposed to be generally valid.
That no human uttering corresponds to any reality outside the
individual? Scientific theories predicts the outcome of experiments so
there are natural laws (static inorganic patterns in moqish).
But if you insist on this reductionist approach, can't it be reduced
further? It's easy to prove that everything is uttered by way of
language - spoken or written, so everything is language. No, there
aren't any people because "people" is a concept - an analogy. Nay,
not even language because "language" is language. Would you
approve of such a "tabula rasa"? If not why not?
Silently yours
Bo
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