Ironically, this view is really a variety of solipsism, reducing as it does reality to human practice.
--- On Wed, 6/18/08, Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:
>
> As to whether we can observe nature directly, that reminds
> of Kant's
> unknowable-things-in- themselves. I subscribe to the
> Hegel/Engels way of
> dealing with that. In a few words, practice as the test of
> theory cuts
> throw the problem that our cultural/symbol system bias
> mediates our
> observation of objective reality.
>
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