> In other words, implicit in chuck's response here is the assumption of our
> ability to finally grasp nature as it is, without our biases shaping our
> perception. If we just get out of our disciplinary straightjackets and
> embrace nature, unmediated, we can finally get at the truth of nature. It
> will, in all its orderliness, reveal itself to us, unmediated by power
> relations. Its a dream of deliverance from uncertainty, in a pomo world
> view, a dream of deliverance from having to be responsible for the way our
> biases, beliefs, etc. etc. are, uh, always already there, that there is no
> Archimedean Point from which to stand to take some dog's eye view and,
> finally at long last, see the natural world as it is, as if we aren't
> there to observe it. blahbeddy blah blah.
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What could be more conducive to ego inflation/epsitemic self-conratulation than knowing God's thoughts ["the rest are mere details" Einstein] The secular version being "the intrinsic nature of reality" yada yada.......