Hi Horse:
Thanks for the heads up on Struan. I was not astute enough to see his
love affair with linguistic analysis although I should have suspected it.
Most academics in humanities departments these days are post-
modernists whose main claim to fame is the absurd belief that it's a
fact there are no facts. I shall take your caution about engaging in
debate with Struan to heart and restrain myself for--as you say--his
modus operandi is to hit and run, flinging insults over his shoulder as
he toddles back to his academic sanctuary.
Platt
> Hiya Platt
>
> Great post and one that I mostly agree with but I think one of the major problems here is not just that
> Struan doesn't accept that the Metaphysics of Quality is not valid but that there is no such thing as a valid
> metaphysics - be it subject/object, materialistic or Hedgehog Rabbit Metaphysics. Unfortunately Struan,
> in the best tradition of the Logical Positivsts, appears to subscribe to the school of thought that rejects
> Metaphysicts and effectively reduces Philosophy to linguistic analysis.
> Unfortunate really given that this list is to do with Philosophy in general and MoQ in particular.
> Additional to this is the particular way in which Struan phrases his postings, eg -
>
> "Every philosopher and physicist of note is surely aware that any theory will have at least some undefined
> terms...."
>
> in other words, if they don't then they aren't of note and in consequence are not worth regarding. So if you
> don't agree with Struan then you are wrong.
>
> In general, engaging in debate with Struan, although fascinating - just to see which questions he runs
> away from - is ultimately pointless because if it does look like he's losing the argument he'll resort to
> evasion and insult.
>
> But as Rog says - I could be wrong.
>
> Horse
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