On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:38:25 -0400 "Charles Brown"
<cbrown at michiganlegal.org> writes:
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> From: Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com>
>
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> Michael Pugliese
> writes:
> > Only philosopher I know that defended that piece of hackery, was
> > Marvin
> > Farber.
> .
> -clip-
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> Also see Roy Wood Sellars' *Reflections on American Philosophy
> From Within*, chapter 8, "Intersecting dialectical materialism"
> <http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/sellarsrefl-8.html>.
>
> Roy Wood Sellars who was a leading defender of realism,
> naturalism and materialism in the first half of the 20th
> century was the father of Wilfrid Sellars, who was one
> of the dominant figures in analytic philosophy after
> WW II. But then again, Wilfrid Sellars who was the
> most analytical of analytical philosophers professed
> to be an admirer of Engels.
>
> Jim F.
>
> ^^^^^^
> CB: Jim, didn't that hack Wittgenstein , at the end of his career,
> agree
> with Lenin on the main point of _Materialism ' _, the existence of
> objective
> reality ?.
I think the later Wittgenstein did hold that the existence of the external world was one of those things that one could not reasonably be skeptical of without your breaking the rules of our linguistic games. I believe that he discussed this issue in his late work *On Certainy*.
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