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Re: [Critical-Realism] One last review

Hi Louis--

Exceedingly quickly:

>                                                        Theories and
> knowledge are transitive, whether in one's head, in a book, distributed
> collectively in social institutions, etc.

If something is an "object of study," then it is intransitive.  Someone can 
analyze Bhaskar's writings, but do so from a positivist point of view.  In 
this case Bhaskar's writings are intransitive, and the reader's positivism 
is transitive.  My own thoughts become intransitive as soon as I think 
something like "Can that be right?"

Cheers,

T.

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Tobin Nellhaus
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"Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce



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