Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 15:44:40 +0900
To: bhaskar-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: BHA: Fixed meanings of causality and explanation


Louis,

I'm afraid I will have to _agree_ with you again.  I don't think that the
CR versions of causality or explanation are fixed for all time and hadn't
originally meant to imply that.  I think all our claims to truth are
provisional.  I agree with Marshall that the CR account is superior to the
kind associated with Blalock -- or anyone else's for that matter.  Being
convinced of that, I would apply the CR accounts of causality and
explanation until a different account and the argument behind it cause me
to reexamine it all.

I'm not usually so agreeable.

doug

doug porpora
dept of psych and sociology
drexel university
phila pa 19104
USA

porporad-AT-duvm.ocs.drexel.edu




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