Re:
>the continued taint of Enlightenment thought, primarily an
>epistemological foundation that guarantees certainty and a
>transparent theory of language.
_What_ Enlightenment epistemological foundation guarantees certainty? _Who_
in the set of Enlightenment thinkers ever thought that language is
"transparent"?
>Hell, we could easily say Kant had it figured out and go home and have a
beer.
I would prefer to say that Hume had the irresolvable dilemmas classified,
and go estimate the changing size of automatic stabilizers, and the current
level of the non-accelerating-inflation-rate-of-unemployment...
:-)
Brad De Long
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