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Re: [xmca] Re: ye

Tony, I tend to read Gadamer with an already-fused concept of discourse/activity, but so far as I can see his notion of "horizon" and "situation" is different than what is entailed in the distinction between Discourse and Activity, that is, Discourse abstracted from the "long-duration Activity" or Project of which it is a part, and Activity abstracted from the language-games through which it is enacted and constituted. I think we are speaking of two fusions. Am I right in thinking that "horizon" is linked to "situation" in Gadamer? If so, we also have different concepts of Situation and Horizon, even though his concepts are very useful and well-worth assimilating. :)

Andy

Tony Whitson wrote:
Well said, Andy; but for this, instead of "assimilation," this might be a perfect occasion for invoking Gadamer's idea of a "fusion of horizons."

On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Andy Blunden wrote:

Yes, that's exactly it, Monica. I didn't realise you weren't a native speaker.

Just a warning/qualification on what I have said. I am not claiming that the concepts of Activity and Discourse ought to be identified; clearly they indicate different traditions of scientific analysis which pick out different objects from the flow of human life. I think I am suggesting though that both sciences ought to expand their self-concept so as to assimilate the gains of the other, creating a single, nuanced concept of Discursive Activity. This of course has nothing to do with assimilating practical actions with word meaning. But the distinction between practical intelligence and verbal thinking/action is developmentally overcome, ontologically, but also historically, I think.

Andy



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