Dear Stan, lists, Hmmm, I rather think the pie in the sky is the idea that culture might make truth criteria evolve so as to have no connection with how they are conceived of today. I think that vastly exaggerates the power of culture to determine science - which forms a special case of a general overestimation of the strength, the closedness and the homogeneity of culture. Cultures are simply not such agent-like powers. In another context, I have tried to demystify this dangerous idealization of "culture". Culturalism is as dangerous to science as is psychologism - both make truth relative, one to so-called cultures, the other to individuals.
Best F Den 15/09/2014 kl. 16.56 skrev Stanley N Salthe <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> : Frederick -- I agree with what you say here (see my reply to Garyf), but disagree with Peirce about 'truth in the limit'. The reason is that culture will evolve, and even the criteria of truth will evolve. Is this not like the religious "pie in the sky"? STAN
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