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>CB: Indeed, in so many ways the Engels-Lenin theory of knowledge seems
>pragmatist, and their "metaphysics" realism.
So I've always thought.
>For pragmatists, isn't the test of a theory what "works" ?
It's not real specific to put it that way.
>For Marxists, practice is the test of theory too. Lenin defines materialism
>as belief in objective reality. I'm wondering how Quine's ideas differ from
>those in _Materialism and Empiro-Criticism_.
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Variously: Lenin isn't expressly committed to epistemological holism, Quine rejected a "mirroring" theory of knowledge and a correspondance theory of truth, although he was a sort of scientific realist and wantws out theories to be true. Quine was also a right winger in his personal politics.
jks
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