Thank you for your analysis and for pointing that out. Intersubjectivity is a word I don’t see nearly enough and you’re right; in the actual practice of science, the lines that seem so nice and clear to students are, as always and thankfully so, blurred by good ol’ reality, at least from what I can see.
I’ve made some kind of switching error of some sort in that statement. I have, alas, been hanging around several Philosophy forums over the past six months, conquering once and for all, a lifetime distaste for that method of discourse… at least.. as it manifests itself on the Internet.
Ayn Rand anyone?
Fallacy? Oh if I hear that word one more time…
But you recognize my point well. My beef, in the end, is with Science-as-presented and the repercussions in society, rather than its actual practice per se. We’re all just people doing the best we can with whatever knowledge we have at hand at the time in whatever roles we may be playing at the time.
I was excessively harsh regarding perceptions of the Subject because I find myself defending its … well.. ultimate truthfulness: not as “absolute ” or “ideal form” – but as a series of on-going negotiations in shared human attempts towards ..
… well, towards whatever it is that supposedly we’re all working towards.
I suppose we’re working towards a Utopian ideal of some kind. Well, many Utopias, different depending who you ask. Shared utopian visions can lead to great things while at the same time losing some things in the process if care isn’t taken.
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