The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden

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On the Whole Point of Theory and of Praxis

The whole point of any proper theory is to validate the claims to validity expressed or implied by a certain praxis, even as the whole point of any praxis is to achieve ends that cannot be achieved unless the validity claims that it expresses or implies are as valid as they claim to be and as a certain theory alone is able to determine that they are.

August 1987; rev. 18 August 2003

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