CHEM 302 Lecture 3: Lecture 3
6 Oct 2017
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For the first essay due on october 18th: Goodman and elgin, interpretation and identity: can the work survive the world? . Thesis: it"s hard to make statements about reality. When you observe reality within a certain frame of reference, you"re constructing the reality. You don"t have an external access to reality, you"re trapped by your perceptions, culture, language, etc. Endorse a metaphysical antirealism in regards to what type of epistemology one wants to approach things with. Perceptual apparatuses are configured within a certain socio-historical context. Warranted or justified claims about the world but no secure external approach to our reality. Argument in favor of saying that we can all share a fixed object of interpretation. The pilot is ignoring what the probable intentions are behind this: causalist argument: what counts as a text counts as such depending on the goals and intentions behind. Only a text if it was made by an individual with a text-making intention.
