[MD] From each... to each
craigerb at comcast.net
craigerb at comcast.net
Sun May 7 22:34:27 PDT 2006
[Arlo]
> Is man...an objective observer, simply observing reality and describing it in a
> unbiased and unobstructed way?
People fall along a spectrum from objective to non-objective, some are far enough toward the objective end of the spectrum to be considered objective (though not, of course, perfectly so), others not. Sometimes we can identify our biases (otherwise, how could we know we have them?).
[Arlo]
> Experience does not tell you "wolves have sharp teeth". Experience tells you
> "low quality situation". Language is a cultural attempt to codify this
> experience into symbolic representations. We have words like "wolf", "sharp"
> and "teeth" because these have cultural value for us.
Sometimes a wolf's having sharp teeth is a good thing for us, sometimes not. Either way, the wolf's teeth are still sharp. The first person to discover this, did not learn it from the language or from the culture, but from experience.
Craig
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