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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