Deutsch (was Re: Marxism as science)

Ted Winslow egwinslow at rogers.com
Tue Jan 1 12:58:22 PST 2002


Ian wrote:


> Well, Hegel did try to pry open the door onto the issues of
> reflexivity and self-reference, but he didn't have the logic tools
> etc. we've got today. He was the last of the 'Great Chain of Being'
> theorists who 'start' with mind and then deduce the world. La Mettrie
> and Lamarck being among the first in the West to invert the whole damn
> thing and assert that mind needs to be explained rather than serving
> as the explainer.

If it isn't minds who explain, who does the explaining?

What starting point for knowledge of the world is there other than our consciousness of it i.e. our minds?

Ted



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