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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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