academic commentary

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 01 Dec 2010, 17:03 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:03:03 -0800
Subject: (urth) academic commentary
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Thomas Bitterman <tom at bitterman.net> wrote:

> Wright's thesis stands or falls on its internal logic and ability to shed
> light on the material.? It is not dependent on what he didn't do except in
> so far as a different theory might be better, and that is a separate
> argument.? It certainly doesn't depend upon any imagined reasons for why he
> did/didn't come to different conclusions.

I don't have a dog in this race, I haven't read Wright, but speaking
in terms of general theory -- if there are important facts (internal
to the text or _maybe_ about the author) that a theory does not take
into account, then that theory is deeply flawed. IMO.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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