I see it as the manifestation of an anxious desire/need to be published
("publish or perish"), or simple megalomania. In both cases the "scholar" wants
to
be see as having a unique and important insight.
> Geoff wrotes:
> >B It does seem to be a universal tendency in scholarly
> > circles to invoke that one's perceptions are the complete and only
> > explanation/interpretation of a phenomenon. It appears to require too much
> > modesty to submit that "this is how I see it'
> >
> Kate responds:
> I think this may be not so much self importance, as an oversimplification
> of the idea that all we actually know about a thing comes from ourB B
> personal
> perceptions of the thing, from some empiric knowledge,whether Kantian or
> Husserl's imanent perception or whatever.
> KAte Sullivan
>
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