Again, the attribution of metaphysical errors to linguistic flaws (based on Indo-European grammar). While there is no doubt that all ideological and metaphysical errors take on the form of flawed logical reasoning, it is nonetheless not entirely convincing to convert this into a causal explanation. She also adduces political explanations, viz. the nature of ruling class ideology. Presumably the two combine. Yet her version of their combination remains rather crude, incomplete at the very least.
Most fascinating to me is the combination of the validation of both formal logic and ordinary language. ^^^^^^ CB: Interesting ,isn't it, how anti-dialectical analysis often ends up at language. Frank and the linguistic philospher trend that Cornforth names, logical positivism, A.J. Ayer, now Rosa L. Wittgenstein got into somekind of linguistic based philo. And of course the postmodernist/structuralists are linguistically based through structural linguistics, Levi-Strassian structural anthropology _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
