Marsha said to dmb:
And like I said, I have not adopted the perspective you've concocted from your
small portion of the flux-of-life. Yours is 'just' one point-of-view. For me,
the MoQ is epistemologically relative (sq) and ontologically indeterminate
(DQ), and that is what I mean when I call myself a relativist. I do not need to
be influenced by what you say is the socially acceptable jargon within the tiny
slice of academia that is your life as a student.
dmb says:
First of all, my perspective is not concocted from the flux of life. The MOQ is
presented in books, using words and ideas and concepts. Pragmatism is a
philosophy too. Radical empiricism is a set of ideas. To say you don't need to
be influenced by academia is to dismiss the people who know what they're
talking about. If that's not an anti-intellectual statement, then I don't know
what would count as anti-intellectual. And the suggestion that academic study
of a philosophy somehow makes one's view more narrow is completely absurd.
Especially considering that I'm getting a degree in interdisciplinary
Humanities, which is the broadest kind of education available at the graduate
level. No, if you want to have a narrow view what you do is ignore the people
who know what they're talking about and cling desperately to your own private
view, making sure you read only those things that seem to confirm what you
already think. And if you want to avoid any possibility of growth or learni
ng, make sure to clam up when people voice criticisms or objections. Better
yet, just say something like "I wish you well" even though you don't and then
curl up in a fetal position until the questions go away.
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