Re: BHA: Delivered up to the world

[Ruth Groff <rgroff@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mervyn,

Thanks for the response.  I'm really interested in this.

You wrote:

I don't think
>Bhaskar operates within the subject/object problematic in the way Adorno
>does. When Bhaskar speaks of knowledge being conditional or relative or
>corrigible he does *not* equate this with its being subjective - it
>rather follows the object, and is relative because it has only
>penetrated so far into the open stratified processual totality we
>inhabit and will be superceded as science probes deeper and developing
>society-in-nature changes.

Okay, but what about his commitment to fallibilism (or however the heck I
spell it -- I'm in too much of a hurry to check the dictionary)?  I think of
that as a big part of the sense in which Bhaskar thinks that all knowledge
is subjective?

r.



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