At 2:57 PM 11/17/96, James Michael Craven wrote: >Gradually >through debate, cross-testing provisional hypotheses and data/data >sources, paradigm/power shifts, old-timers dying etc etc some of the >"constructions of truth" become patently untenable for all but the >totally warped, some become less provisional and more established, >some become the established orthodoxy until dialectically, the >spiral process continues with the established orthodoxy under >challenge, new and old constructions of truth emerging as >provisional, some narratives remaining "local" while other local >narratives become more generalized through linking up of people >living under not-so-common conditions and forms of oppression and so >on Uh, is this another way of saying that approximations of "truth" are arrived at through experimentation, struggle, and conversation? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>
