The Proof of the Pudding...Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #4729

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>kelley wrote:
>>>You need a normative ground in order to distinquish between 
>>>science and ideology...
>>
>>that suggests there are definitive distinguishing features
>>between science and ideology. are there? what are they?
>>
>>         --ravi
>
>the proof of the pudding is in the eating and the eating is in the future,
>
>horkheimer and adorno, _the eclipse of reason_

That's an argument against the alleged need for a normative ground a 
la Habermas in the present, though.  For all we know, we may be 
universally eating a better pudding in the future if we are less 
obsessed with making a universalist pudding in the present.

Yoshie