Rosan,
you wrote:
>I thought the use of language is one of the 'essential' features of
>'knowledge'?
>Or do I completely miss the point about discourse analyses? - Regards, Rosan
Whoah! -sneaky Rosan! :-) -did I mention discourse analyses? I guess I
just meant that for me at any rate all these distinctions of different
kinds of knowledge don't have much meaning outside of some particular
context of argument. I cannot connect with them as just absolute categories
floating in some kind of universal vacuum. The categories of distinction
available in a language are fossils of past discussions. If one does not
situate them in the old discussion (as Ken likes so much to do) or into a
new one they are only empty shells of meaning, waiting to be infused with a
particular significance.
As Stephen Jay Gould says in another context "we may choose to parse the
world in many other ways with radically different implications" (Leonardo's
Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms" 1998 p394)
Regards
Andrew
Andrew J King
<http://www.ajking.dircon.co.uk>
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