On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, BklynMagus wrote:
> I agree that the end products of logic/rationality
> are determined in part by the cultural premises put
> into the machinery of logic/rationality. Where I
> disagree is in believing that the machinery itself is
> culturally determined (if this indeed is what Miles is
> maintaining and not my miseading of his posts).
You're not quite getting my point. Yes, the human brain is capable of "logic/rationality". But this mode of thinking that you like is a social product, not a cultural universal. --There is a huge pile of historical and cross-culturally research that supports this claim; saying "I don't believe it" doesn't make all the data go away.
Miles