Ethical foundations of the left

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Sat Jul 28 07:06:54 PDT 2001



>>> farmelantj at juno.com 07/22/01 06:35PM >>

Another point, is that assuming that Justin has represented Posner's position correctly, then he sounds suspiciously like a pomo. Many other pomos have drawn upon views akin to Duhemian holism to justify a relativist epistemology, in ways that Quine would most certainly have disapproved.

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CB: Jim, at the beginning of the 20th Century, didn't a lot of Machians and other idealists attempt to use Einstein's relativity theory in physics and quantum mechanics theory ( such as Heisenberg's interpretation) to justify relatavist epistemology in a way that Einstein , Planck and others came to disagree with ?



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