Guest guest Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 I 'spoze now we'll all be hearing a lot about *context*... ....Pointedly, and dripping with *significance*, as in: " Autism Spectrum Disorders as Context Blindness " . ...As though a new discovery had been made; a new understanding arrived at. This is special pleading with a vengeance: *EVERYTHING* has " context " , always and forevermore; there's nothing new in that. To point out that something exists, or happens, " in context " always is useful - a reminder perhaps of special circumstances to be considered - and there's nothing wrong in that. We've all done it; I've done it aplenty. But to promote " context " as overarching everything under consideration (necessarily including itself) is merely silly. At best it's a syllogism. At worst logically equivalent to claiming the whole is more than the sum of its parts (including itself). Big-time contradictions follow. - Bill, AS, ...puzzling over the new psychology -- WD " Bill " Loughman - Berkeley, California USA http://home.earthlink.net/~wdloughman/wdl.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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