--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
"She denies both the insight _and_ the murky realm by thinking that discussion of one is any indication whatever of any particular opinion on the other"
Have you read this particular book, or are you just responding to my representation of her?
BobW
>
>
> Robert Wrubel wrote:
> >
> > I dont think she's denying the insight of any of
> the
> > writers mentioned, but stating that none of them
> does
> > away with, or relieves us from, the murky realm of
> > private moral struggle she believes (as a novelist
> > perhaps) we all live in.
>
> She denies both the insight _and_ the murky realm by
> thinking that
> discussion of one is any indication whatever of any
> particular opinion
> on the other.
>
> It is as though someone were to suggest that quantum
> physicists lacked
> an appreciation of the art of adjusting oven
> temperature for baking
> bread. At a certain level of abstraction, certain
> propositions are true,
> PERIOD. And for someone to say that those
> propositions don't explain
> something at another level of abstraction is pure
> obscurantism. Of
> course they don't -- and that is utterly irrelevant.
> A study of oven
> temperatures doesn't explain General Relativity. Big
> Deal. General
> RElativity doesn't explain oven temperatures. Big
> Deal.
>
> Carrol
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