taking a break

From: Mike Cole (mcole@weber.ucsd.edu)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 14:51:56 PDT


I'll be away from the 24th-June 5th and have been too tied up to get
into the discussion around psychoanalysis and chat. A last little bit
for now, see you around.....\

Diane wrote:
the problem of pragmatics and theory is always in this lust for proof

(this is a followup of several commentaries)

Speaking absolutely personally, Dianne, and not as a person particularly
knowledgable about pragmatism, I thought that the whole point of
Dewey's work ("The quest for certainty") being one prominent place where
it is expressed, is that it assumes that uncertainty NEVER goes away and
that all we can know, for certain, in general, is that whatever we think
is wrong/incomplete/still becoming.

Seems from a comment Paul made in response to the Kristeva quote is
that Kant was an activity theorist! :-)
mike



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