>>To call Truth "what we have never had" begs the question.
>
>Yes, but what I said we'd never had was not truth per se, but a
>non-historically relative understanding of truth. Truth, to restate
>the central point which you explicitly denied and now drop, has a
>history.
>
>This still leaves room for (what Dreyfus calls) a 'hermeneutic
>realism.' Truth is always relative to a historical clearing. I
>would suggest reading Dreyfus's "Heidegger's Hermeneutic Realism"
>(and the piece by Kuhn to which it responds) in Hiley, ed., _The
>Interpretive Turn_, (Cornell, 1991). And on the first point above,
>Geertz's "Anti anti-relativism," in _Relativism_ (Notre Dame, 1989).
>
>Iain
Might this also be tied to a kind of "species perspectivism," that is,
"truth" is not just a product of our historical heritage, but of our
evolutionary heritage as well. Not just a cultural product, but also a
genetic one.
Steve
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>Yes, but what I said we'd never had was not truth per se, but a
>non-historically relative understanding of truth. Truth, to restate
>the central point which you explicitly denied and now drop, has a
>history.
>
>This still leaves room for (what Dreyfus calls) a 'hermeneutic
>realism.' Truth is always relative to a historical clearing. I
>would suggest reading Dreyfus's "Heidegger's Hermeneutic Realism"
>(and the piece by Kuhn to which it responds) in Hiley, ed., _The
>Interpretive Turn_, (Cornell, 1991). And on the first point above,
>Geertz's "Anti anti-relativism," in _Relativism_ (Notre Dame, 1989).
>
>Iain
Might this also be tied to a kind of "species perspectivism," that is,
"truth" is not just a product of our historical heritage, but of our
evolutionary heritage as well. Not just a cultural product, but also a
genetic one.
Steve
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