[lbo-talk] Signs of the times

[Chris Doss]

On Certainty deals entirely with word usage. Unless you think that the structure of the universe depends on how we use words, it's not terribly relevant. Marx had no epistemology whatsoever.

--- On Sun, 9/20/09, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com> wrote:


> From: Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Signs of the times
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 2:49 PM
> or worthy of Bertrand Russell. See
> Russell, "Introduction to Philosophy,"
> especially the chapter on induction.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 1:44 PM, brad bauerly <bbauerly at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > >Now there's an argument worthy of Christianity
> Today, one that quickly
> > dissolves into solipsism.  See Wittgenstein, "On
> Certainty".
> > Or Marx!
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > We all believe things that have no rational
> grounds -- there is an
> > external world, the future will be like the past,
> every effect has a cause.
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