--- wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
>
> I'm not terribly sure what you mean by
> 'pre-theoretical" knowledge, but it
> seems that it is indicating one is producing
> knowledge from a conceptual
> framework that one either does not recognize or has
> somehow obfuscated
> from oneself. But that knowledge needs a conceptual
> framework in order to
> be produced. This could be called common sense in
> the Gramscian sense.
> It is also 'theoretical' in the sense that it
> unknowingly engages in the
> production and reproduction of concepts. Probably
> the difference between
> what is consciously called theory and what is not,
> is that the
> 'theoretical' critically engages in those conceptual
> frameworks (either
> positively in the sense of what is X's conceptual
> framework or negatively,
> in the sense of what are the flaws in X's conceptual
> framework).
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