Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 04:23:22 -0700 (PDT)
To: bhaskar-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: BHA: new dialectics anyone?


Thanks for the clarification.  I shall have to study these remarks.  But
there is one point off the bat I do not understand.

At 11:00 AM 8/28/97 GMT, NURSAW wrote:
>I would argue that the essential difference between RB and new 
>dialectics is that the former sees an external relation between 
>thought and its object (in the sense detailed in Andrew Sayer's 
>book), hence its 'epistemological relativism' wheras new dialectics 
>proposes an internal relation of thought and its object. New 
>dialectics accomodates an isomorphism of thought and reality, wheras
>RB does not. 

Thought internally related to its object?  What can this mean?  Sounds like
idealist nonsense to me.



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