[MD] What is radical empiricism?

[ian glendinning]

Davids, Gav,

I'm no fan of labels like "radical empiricism", but I have no problem
with that working understanding (DMB, clarified by Gav) of the term in
relation to MoQ.

As we find frequently, it doesn't fix any problem in itself, and we
get into debates about "so what counts as immedate experience", and we
wheel out Barfield etc.

I'm cool with radical empiricism.
Ian

On 10/31/06, gav <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> if i may,
> radical empiricism is taking immediate experience as
> the only certainty. everything else is 'bracketed';
> putative, not absolute.
>
> in the MOQ the same position is seen in the DQ/sq
> relation. DQ is absolute (truly radically empirical);
> sq is abstracted from DQ; sq is what we call 'the
> world' - every*thing*.
>
> memory, science etc are all sq patterns or
> meta-patterns. their pragmatic truth value is
> dependent upon their continued accord with (immediate)
> experience.
>
> everything is abstracted from immediate experience
> (DQ), including us.
>
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