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| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Example from Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Posted by: | Ann Olivier |
| Date/Time: | 2011/10/15 22:38:33 |
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LES TELLS US:?"In particular, even if all knowledge has its [a] origin in experience, the open question is how to [b] constitute it, how to ensure that what has been accessed or acquired is legitimate." ANN REPLIES:?Recent scholarship has shown that there are similarities in the thinking on this subject of Husserl, the founder of phenomenology,?and C.S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism.?Both are interested in how the *constitution* of structured thoughts (concepts) is effected/produced/received from our daimons (just kidding) on the basis of relatively simple perceptual data.?Peirce thought that ordinary logic was not the answer -- his answer is his theory of "abduction" or "abductive logic", a "logic" which is not totally deductive.?I found Husserl thoroughly unsatisfactory on the subject, and I don't know much about Peirce.?But Peirce especially might be right down y'alls alley. The philosophical/psychological issues that both Peirce and Husserl bring up are particularly difficult, and I'm not sure just what each think is the object of "objective reality".?Something Platonic in both cases, apparently. But both have some valuable insights -- or at least questions --about the constitution of ideas. ------------------- In particular, even if all knowledge has its [a] origin in experience, the open question is how to [b] constitute it, how to ensure that what has been accessed or acquired is legitimate. Without [b], pseudo-ratio ---------------- |