“The main objection to the 'scientistic' claim that physics describes the world as it is in itself is that you 'can't weed out' the human contribution. That is, the scientific image of the world, like any other, is indelibly shaped by our interests, practices and prejudices.” WorldHumansInterestPracticeClaimsPrejudicePhysicsContributionWeedObjections Author:David E. Cooper
“Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires a certain goodness on the part of the gardener: care, humility, patience, and respect, for example.” CareCertainPracticeVirtueExampleHumilityGoodnessExcellentInternalsGardeningGardener Author:David E. Cooper
“There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate when combined with a rather abstract view of a language as a set of elements and rules for combining these. For the result is to divorce enquiry into meaning from attention to the way words - and gestures, facial expressions, rituals and so on - are embedded in practices, in what Wittgenstein called 'the stream of life'.” WayLanguageResultsViewsAttentionPracticeExpressionElementsDivorceSentencesAbstractStreamsRitualGesturesUnfortunateEmbeddedCombiningFacialEnquiryFacial ExpressionMyopicMyopiaMeanings Of Words Author:David E. Cooper
“In the final analysis, all explanations of meaning, various as they are, serve to indicate how something is 'appropriate' in and to our practices, our lives in effect.” PracticeOur LivesEffectsFinalsVariousAnalysisExplanationAppropriate Author:David E. Cooper