Re: Analytical Marxism -- Errata

[davidmci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David McInerney)]

Whoops!  Justin, in my reply to you I cut out something by mistake.  It
mustn't have made much sense!

Here is how it should have read:

>Empiricism is a variety of SPS, and the dominant one in social science.
>Pragmatism, a variant on it, is the doubting Thomas that believes that this
>guarantee of the validity of experience cannot be assured.  This is the
>postmodern tendency, which you allude to in the [following sentence]:

and here is the missing part of my last post:

>>The alternative
>>to using such norms, which are indeed not a priori but evolving and
>>subject to critique, is the abandonment of science, the attempt to explain
>>and (where possible) predict the empirical world.

I hope this clarifies things!!


Mr. David McInerney,
Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences,
The Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., AUSTRALIA  0200.
e-mail: davidmci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ph: (06) 249 2134; fax: (06) 249 3051




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