Polo wars [the horse and rider are down now, beaten badly]

Lisa & Ian Murray seamus at accessone.com
Sat Jan 29 14:24:08 PST 2000


<< A)antifoundationalism is older than pomo.


>>You're telling me? I'm a pragmatist. James, Royce, Peirce, and Dewey were
antifoundationalists before pomo was even a glimmer in modernism's eye. Not to mention my beloved Germans, going baclk to graet, craeking old Kant. "Intuitions without concepts are blind," he said in 1787.

Try Bhudda and Nagarjuna


>>Right, same deal. I used to be a philosophy prof. I won't be shoked to
hear that some smart people have thought that reality isn't real.

The issue isn't reality but whether we can render intelligible statements about it that "solve" the primary/secondary qualities distinction. QT and Ecology render the problem more, not less, intractable and interminable [see John Post's "The Faces of Existence" as an exemplar of the desire to have it both ways--while failing]

IMO we'll be pomo when we leave the fossil fuel age. Until then it's all just the usual academic haggling.

Ian



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