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nostromo
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Montréal, Québec
Mar 2002
time: 00:37
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Originally posted by Agathon
Reading the Rorty paper, he says:
Yeah, but Plato introduces it only to point out why it has to fail, and nobody bothered to listen to him. If more people read the Theaetetus we could finally dump a lot of worthless stuff. |
True. IMO that's a sad consequence of analytic philosophy's stance against history of philosophy. I read somewhere that they even tried to eliminate history of philosophy from the curriculum. Like Rorty himself pointed out (he says sensible things once in a while  ):
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Quine was openly scornful about the study of the history of philosophy. In his own student years, Quine had made a point of reading as few of the canonical texts as possible, and he recommended this practice to his students at Harvard. He believed the history of philosophy to be just as irrelevant to current philosophical inquiry as is the history of physics to current research in that field. Quine admired Carnap for having, when asked to teach an introductory course in Plato, responded that he would not teach Plato, because he would teach nothing but the truth. Quinean attitudes of this sort were widespread at Princeton. The Princeton students dutifully competed with one another in argumentative skill and dialectical acumen, rather than in acquiring a wide range of learning. |
You have to hand it to them: they had chutzpah!
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Flinx
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Toronto, ON CANADA
Nov 2001
time: 00:37
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Originally posted by loinburger
3. A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality... |
Paradigm. Do you know what one is? Do you have one? Are you blinded by it?
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How do you know what you know?
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Originally posted by Darsnan
Experience. Yes, I utilize a pradigm. I am not blinded by my paradigm because part of my paradigm is to assess and interogate the environment that I find myself in, and act in response to that information. Does that always mean I will be succesful? No. Hence my reply above of "experience". |
Your paradigm is how you assess and integrate the world around you.
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Originally posted by Japher
My Paradigm: People are stupid, act accordingly. |
When someone has this paradigm about an identifiable group they can be called racist, sexist, homophobic, ageist, classis etc. For example, if a racist thinks all Romany (Gypsies) are smelly lazy ignorant thieves, any Romany that do not fit that description are dismissed/ignored as individual exceptions while anyone who is perceived to have these attributes reinforces the belief. Another person with a different paradigm could think that people like the person in the previous example deny Romany jobs and access to housing and education, forcing them into ghettos, so it is not surprising that some resort to stealing, and the fact that some have escaped this fate is proof that the all could if given the opportunity.
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02-07-2004 02:41
I'm an analytic philosopher of science, whatever that means. Kuhn wasn't a "continentalist" either.
(especially the falsifiers of history).
I'd alway give 
to fiction writers as long as it is recognized that what is written is fiction. 
I never said anything like that! The notion such as 'fact' is certainly applicable to history. But it is in this discipline that facts tend to be distorted by interpretation most. 
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