Language, the Ultimate Source and Analysis of Data
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Insofar as I have an epistemology it’s borrowed from Charles Sanders Peirce’s notion that truth is what will turn out to be the case in the long run by the community of inquirers, which in my understanding not only makes truth a kind of infinitely receding target but makes it an effect of seeing to the long-term coherence and integrity of the community of inquirers. In that case, the meaning, or eventual ostensive truth, of anything I happen to be saying now, is located in some hypothetical figure upon a hypothetical scene at some hypothesized time in the future—or, really, a sequence and distribution of such figures on such scenes at such times, to be further specified by continuations of the discourse initiated by that statement. This also means that part of the meaning of what you say is your own promise to do what you can to ensure the establishment of that scene and the preparation of the figures necessary to populate and act upon it in the way implicit in whatever you’ve said. You start to design a scene, however unlikely or distant, with every utterance even if you’re doing no more than scouting out the location, so to speak.
Language, the Ultimate Source and Analysis of Data
Language, the Ultimate Source and Analysis of…
Language, the Ultimate Source and Analysis of Data
Insofar as I have an epistemology it’s borrowed from Charles Sanders Peirce’s notion that truth is what will turn out to be the case in the long run by the community of inquirers, which in my understanding not only makes truth a kind of infinitely receding target but makes it an effect of seeing to the long-term coherence and integrity of the community of inquirers. In that case, the meaning, or eventual ostensive truth, of anything I happen to be saying now, is located in some hypothetical figure upon a hypothetical scene at some hypothesized time in the future—or, really, a sequence and distribution of such figures on such scenes at such times, to be further specified by continuations of the discourse initiated by that statement. This also means that part of the meaning of what you say is your own promise to do what you can to ensure the establishment of that scene and the preparation of the figures necessary to populate and act upon it in the way implicit in whatever you’ve said. You start to design a scene, however unlikely or distant, with every utterance even if you’re doing no more than scouting out the location, so to speak.