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>To: fis@listas.unizar.es
>From: "Stanley N. Salthe" <ssalthe@binghamton.edu>
>Subject: Re: [FIS] Re: Concluding replies
>
>Commenting on Arne's posting, with which I substantially agree. I find it
>useful to construct a specification hierarchy of 'realms of nature' (each
>of which is a cultural construct), as:
>{physical dynamics {material connections {biological forms {sociocultural
>traditions}}}}
> This allows us to put all of scientific knowledge in an orderly
>arrangement (in the sprit of the Unity of Knowledge outlook). Physics
>subsumes all other science discourses, while sociology implies (material
>implication) all the others.
> Since an individual's knowing resides within sociocultural traditions,
>it is mediated by all of these realms of nature. There remains the
>question of to what extent, say, the 'taste of an orange' is culturally
>mediated. If it is not, then it is yet biologically mediated. Some might
>think that only physical knowledge could be directly about the World
>itself, but we biological beings must construct culturally-mediated
>machines in order to detect -- indeed construct -- the data which we
would
>hold to be physical information.
>
>STAN
>
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