>>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