Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 06:13:46 -0800
Subject: Re: Reason & Metanarratives


MATTHEW FRANCIS WETTLAUFER wrote:

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Misunderstanding.  I read you post as post-structuralist rejection of
"self", not language.

If you read my response to Jon (yesterday) you will find yourself
quoted as an authority.

Quantitatively, Stalin and Gulag outstripped Hitler and the Holocaust.
I somehow find qualitative distinctions re: genocides or even daily
murders, repugnant, however "true".  Yet such meditations on evils past
might conceivably lead to overt acts which would diminish present and
future horrors. 

Feyerabend in "Farewell to Reason" is extremely critical of the 
metanarrative of science.  Also of Popper.

Popper was his mentor at one time; lectures,seminars.  He visited
Popper, spoke to his cat.  

Feyerabend would have preferred Wittgenstein to Popper, but Wittgenstein
died.

Regards,
Hugh