Thank you for the help in relation to the Vienna Circle. It is a circle
that has been much misunderstood in radical left circles. When I was in my
late teens I was led to the view that it was a crassly reactionary group.
Why did Wittgenstein not view himself as a logical positivist? What, if
Chris Doss
I think this depends on how you define science.
Cosmology, paleontology, and many forms of geology are
all really varieties of history and all normally
considered sciences. Unless one wants to say that
history only refers to that story of the development
of human beings, and that for
Puuhlease. They don't need you to be dignified.
Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/02/2008 2:13 AM
This inbred and rather unintelligent leftist breastbeating reminds me
why I have quit so many groups. I wouldn't dignify this drivel with
the notion of debate.
At 01:47 PM 4/1/2008, Charles
CeJ jannuzi
Well Obama's up from the ashes story just never sat very well with me.
^^^
CB: When I read part of O's biography, I never got the impression he
was telling an up from ashes story. He was in a middle
This is stimulating but wrong--stimulatingly wrong--I think. Marx
speculates that all epochs have their own law of population, for
example. He was only ('only'!) studying capitalism and what went
before. There are surely laws of history in communism but we don't
know
what they are yet.
enjoy in solidarity jim
Subject: NEW WINE FOR SENIORs
Aussie vintners, in the Barossa area, which primarily produces Pinot
Blanc, Pinot Noir and
Pinot Grigio wines, have developed a new hybrid grape that acts as an
anti-diuretic.
It is expected to reduce the number of trips
I wonder if this is unequivocally true about the Frankfurters. For
sure, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse had an animus against
positivism, but it is not necessarily the case that they viewed the
neopositivists themselves as reactionaries. The closest approach to
specific animosity I can