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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Cute comment but a valid point. The assertion is
itself reflexively culturally dependent and bound and hence relative.
While I assert it as a working premise from which to analyze and deconstruct the
opposing position or positions and for that purpose hold it as a tentative
universal or absolute, I fully realize that is is but only another possibility
in a world of multiple realities, which itself can be open to question and
treated as problematic. I do not do it here and tend not to do it often in
other situations since the possibility that I am using as a working premise is
not the dominant establishment view in the work-a-day world and is always
being challenged and called into question as problematic by those who support
the dominant viewpoint whenever it is brought up so there is no need for me to
do it myself. The dominant Western ontology and epistemology as well as
derivative philosophy of science is grounded in a positivist and logical
positivist tradition. What I am suggesting is also based on a Western
tradition of thought coming out of a Phenomenological ontology and epistemology
along with its derivative philosophy of science (although it does have or take
on other non-Western forms in non-Western cultural traditions). In some
circles, my position has been called "Ethnomethodology."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=galliher@illinois.edu
href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">C. G. Estabrook</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 31, 2010 4:57 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=ls1000@live.com href="mailto:ls1000@live.com">Laurie
Solomon</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Peace-discuss] Corn Festival -- RE: Sweet Corn Fest
Fri & Sat!</DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On 8/31/10 1:37 PM, Laurie Solomon wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:COL119-DS6534FCD01E578698E5875BD8A0@phx.gbl
type="cite"><FONT face=Calibri>...valid standards that you suggest for
deciding the validity of arguments, facts, effectiveness, and usefulness are
defined by and within, have meaningfulness and significance within, and are
acceptable and valid within the context and parameters of a given system
of thought and that systems of thought are themselves grounded in
and bounded to philosophical positions which are culturally dependent and
relative. <BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>Does this assertion "have meaningfulness and
significance within - and is acceptable and valid within - the context and
parameters of a given system of thought [which is itself] grounded in and
bounded to philosophical positions which are culturally dependent and
relative"? <BR><BR>Or is it absolute (in the sense of being true whatever
else is true)?<BR><BR><BR><BR>
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