[lbo-talk] AI

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Fri Nov 21 08:48:34 PST 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Winslow" <egwinslow at rogers.com>


> Whitehead, in pointing out that deduction can't be the main method of
> "philosophy" (which for him means ontology), makes the main method
> "direct intuitive observation." This is what Husserl means by
> "phenomenology," This is the ultimate basis of thinking and cognition.

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How does he know this, other than simply declaring it to be so? What does it even mean to assert that there is a 'main method'? Wilfred Sellars and others have pummelled 'direct intuitive observation' for decades. Alas, there is as much dissensus in philosophy as economics.

Ian



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