35 lines
1.9 KiB
Python
35 lines
1.9 KiB
Python
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stringo = """
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Obviously, the key claim here is that the possibilities of ‘intelligibility’
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(or ‘cognitive comprehension’) are not exhaustively or exclusively
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mapped by a specific conceptual register, and particularly not by that of
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supposedly intuitive, pre-theoretical commonsense. In this regard,
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Churchland’s point, following Sellars, is that the register of intelligi-
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bility commensurate with what we take to be ‘pre-theoretical common-
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sense’, specifically in the case of our own self-understanding, is itself
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theoretically saturated, even if long familiarity has rendered its specu-
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lative character invisible to us. Though science has immeasurably
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enriched our understanding of phenomena by way of techniques and
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resources quite foreign to commonsense, as those resources begin to be
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deployed closer to home in the course of the investigation into the
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nature of mind, they begin to encroach on a realm of phenomena
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hitherto deemed to have lain beyond the purview of science, specifi-
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cally, the phenomena grouped together under the heading of ‘mean-
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ing’, which for many philosophers harbour the key to grasping what
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makes us ‘human’. The issue then is whether, as these philosophers insist,
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science is constitutively incapable of providing a satisfactory account of
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what we mean by ‘meaning’, or whether it is the authority of our pre-
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scientific intuitions about ‘meaning’ and ‘meaningfulness’ that needs
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to be called into question. In debates surrounding EM, it is important
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to dissociate these broader issues concerning the question of cognitive
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priority in the relation between the scope of scientific explanation and
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the authority of our pre-scientific self-understanding from the narrower
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issues pertaining to EM’s own specific internal consistency. As we shall
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see, the vicissitudes of the latter do not necessarily vindicate those who
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would uphold the former.
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"""
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print(
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stringo.replace('\n', ' ')
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) |