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>From: dlyndes@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (David Lyndes)
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Subject: Re: jibing, dedekind cuts, and "noumenalia"
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Date: 6 Feb 1992 19:36:32 GMT
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In article <kou7j3INNaqa@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber) writes:
|> In article <1992Feb4.163434.8471@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
|>  
|>  BB:
|>  What are your sources of knowledge besides experience and introspection?
|>  
|>  MZ:
|>  Noumenal perception of the universals.
|> 
|>  Having dispensed with not only the reduction of thought and reference,
|>  but also with even a tangible approach to thought and reference, it would seem
|>  that MZ has proved an anti-cogito and left us confined within a domain
|>  populated only by refutation and soupcons.  "Noumenal perception of
|>  the universals" conjures up some kind of spiritualism .  If everything
|>  that MZ maintains is .true. , what discursive and/or analytical path
|>  is left vis a vis "thought, consciousness, and reference"?  Is there
|>  only exegesis and transcendental mimesis, then?
|>  

Nope, there is still pragmatics (Piercean), archeology (Foucultian), and
a myriad other methods with plausibility.  There are as goals insight,
utility, understanding, ...
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