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In a message dated 97-11-10 11:53:52 EST, Jonathon wrote:
<< Postivism and "common sense" both share a
concept of knowledge acqusition as reflecting or picturing a
"world-out-there." As such, it does not acknowledge the role of dialogue
and social mediation in the construction of economic theories. >>
There is no incompatibility between talk of advances
in understanding of something other than our own selves and
seeing that advance of understanding as taking place within a
social context that includes advances in shared linguistic practice.
To hold otherwise is a product of positivism, and flies in the face
of everday understanding -- and indeed logic. A non-philosophical
sense of our background understanding -- i.e. a non-positivistic
'common sense' -- would reject Jonathon's distinction. I would argue
that such a rejection is exactly what you find in the later work of
Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Greg Ransom
Dept. of Social Science
Mira Costa College
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