Lexicon of Arguments

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III 168
Constructivism/Maturana: the nervous systems (autopoietic) creates reality.
>Autopoiesis.
SearleVsMaturana: genetic fallacy: from the fact that our image of reality is constructed, it does not follow that reality is constructed.
>Constructivism/Maturana.
Maturana: rejects the idea of an "objective reality" in favour of the idea that nervous systems like autopoietic systems create their own reality. Since we have no idea and no access to reality except through social construction, there is no independent reality.
>Objectivity/Maturana, >Reality/Maturana.
SearleVsMaturana: from the fact that our knowledge/imagination/image of reality is constructed by human brains in social interactions, it does not follow that reality has been created by human brains.
III 169
Genetic misconception: a problem beyond that: would the interactions themselves also be constructed by interaction?
>Regress.
Winograd: example: "there is water in the fridge". Relative to different backgrounds you can make statements that are true or false. From this he concludes that reality does not exist independently of our representations.
SearleVsWinograd: the genetic fallacy as in Maturana confuses our image (background) with reality. Cf. >Background/Searle, >Terminology/Searle.
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Derrida: "Il n'y a pas de "hors texte"".
SearleVsDerrida: this is simply claimed without argument. In a later polemical answer he seems to take everything back anyway. He claims that the whole thing only means banality, that everything exists in one context or another.
>Derrida.

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