language

[Michael Hoover]

> Sam writes:
> >confusing ontological questions (what exists) with epistemological ones
> (how we
> >can know what exists). The objectivity of truth and the attempts to know
> it are
> >different claims. 
> of course this is a claim you make.  how we think we know is conceptually
> related to what we think exists.  epistemology and ontology are
> inextricably intertwined.  yes, it's a claim and i will defend it.
> kelley

Susan Bordo, Jane Flax, and Nancy Hirschman are among those who
explore dimensions of political theory rooted in social-structural 
forms of relationship and reveal ontological dimensions of the
theories' epistemologies...

according to Hirschman, dichotomy between epistemology and
ontology, which characterizes both rationalist and empiricist
epistemologies, is masculinist in following or echoing mind-body
duality...H argues that epistemology arises from ontology, ways
of knowing from ways of being so masculine ontology gives rise to
way of looking at world conceptualizing power as domination...
Michael Hoover