[MD] Food for Thought

[ian glendinning]

Arlo, (and DMV, and David M)

Thanks for that succinct confirmation Arlo. That's all I was aiming at.
"Our intellectual description of nature is always culturally derived."

DM makes the same mythos / logos point too.

DMB et al ...
So I say simply, what passes for "science" is also culturally derived. End of.

Regards
Ian
On 12/22/06, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> [Ian]
> I see a clear gradings of the quality of cultural concepts and activities, and
> can see useful social / intellectual labels, but this labelling seems entirely
> cultural.
>
> [Arlo]
> Of course it is, the logos emerges from the mythos, it is bound by it. Pirsig
> says as much when we criticizes the logos that emerged from Greek culture (of
> which we are the heir) as having a sharp subject/object distinction, the SOM
> we've inherited. The key sentence to all this Pirsig himself provides.
>
> "Our intellectual description of nature is always culturally derived."
>
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