"Lacan is pseudo-scientist? what authority do you
claim to be able to make
such a statement?"
I guess we could come back to the hoary old idea of
falsifiability. Kristeva claims, for instance, that
one must have experienced loss to write poetry. It
would be very difficult to disprove this statement
because, like so much of her stuff it is couched in
concepts that are exceptionally vague. I think someone
commented on this when he/she said :Hmm, you have to
suffer loss...so that about cuts out 3 of us,
right..." I guess I am saying that a very basic
requirement (and I'm making this out to be simpler
than it is)of a scientific statement is that it be
falsifiable.
"as a matter of courtesy, why don't you criticize the
specifics of Kristeva's remarks,"
I did, in the second half of my posting.
" rather then just rain on cassie's parade"
I'm not raining on it, I'm contributing to it.
Cheers
Scott
I did. Read the second half of my e mail.
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<< pseudo-scientists like
Kristeva and Lacan, >>
Lacan is pseudo-scientist? what authority do you
claim to be able to make
such a statement? are you a non-pseudo-scientist?
what is a
non-pseudo-scientist -- someone who isn't a
mathematician or a chemist? or
is your claim that any medical treatment that doesn't
rely on pharmaceuticals
is a pseudo-science? as a matter of courtesy, why
don't you criticize the
specifics of Kristeva's remarks, rather then just rain
on cassie's parade
with your opinion -- is it because you can't, because
you don't know enough
about this pseduo-science of psychoanalysis to talk
about it?
jb..
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"Why is it not possible for me to doubt that I have never been on the moon? And how
could I try to doubt it? First and foremost, the supposition that perhaps I have
been there would strike me as idle. Nothing would follow from it, nothing be
explained by it. It would not tie in with anything in my life... Philosophical
problems occur when language goes on holiday. We must not separate ideas from life,
we must not be misled by the appearances of sentences: we must investigate the
application of words in individual language-games" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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