I have a suspicion that Ted confuses phenomenology and metaphysics. Phenomenology is the study of the structure of consciousness, not the world, and, unless you are a subjective idealist and equate consciousness and the world, it tells you nothing about the world. Teleology etc. are parts of the world-as-experienced-by-consciousness, not the world-as-described-by-science or the world-as-it-is-just-going-around-doing-its-own-thing.
----- Original Message ---- From: Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Sun, December 20, 2009 5:43:11 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] the anatomy of man is the key to the anatomy of the ape
On 09-12-20 06:34 AM, Ted Winslow wrote:
> That the ontological and anthropological ideas involved are inconsistent with the dominant form of "materialism" doesn't demonstrate that they are mistaken. Valid criticism has ultimately to be phenomenological.
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> Ted
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Do you have a non-circular argument that backs up the truth-claim of the second sentence?
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