[lbo-talk] Y'all Yeti for This (was: How many earths)

[Dennis Claxton]

At 01:41 PM 5/8/2009, ravi wrote:
>>Shane can't just
>>pull his favorite meaning out of his butt.
>
>
>I think he can, as long as he states what it is. And he does: it's the
>idea, arguably incoherent by some philosopher's standard, but quite
>well-accepted in day to day usage, of nature as clung on to by your
>friendly neighbourhood scientist.

  Nope.  Because he put in a little parenthetical that turned it 
toward a kind of more Marxist than thou question.  This started with 
Zizek, who calls himself an old-fashioned Marxist, so it's not as 
straightforward as you're making it.


> > The premise of the scientific naturalist (sometimes called
> > "materialist") world view is that "there is *only* Nature."
> > Shane Mage