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	<title>The Veil Away &#187; theory</title>
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		<title>Fish, Language, and Worldview</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kenny Gradert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Literary theorist Stanley Fish has a fun read,  &#8221;Is There a Text in this Class?&#8221; Do read it, but for the sake of the post, here is my own summary: Language is situational. You cannot separate a statement&#8217;s meaning from its situation. Thus, meta-truths=asituational truths=useless to people (for they are constantly situation-bound). People accuse him of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Literary theorist Stanley Fish has a fun read,  &#8221;Is There a Text in this Class?&#8221; Do read it, but for the sake of the post, here is my own summary: Language is situational. You cannot separate a statement&#8217;s meaning from its situation. Thus, meta-truths=asituational truths=useless to people (for they are constantly situation-bound). People accuse him of relativism, but his response:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;While relativism is a position one can entertain, it is not a position one can occupy. No one can *be* a relativist, because no one can achieve the distance from his own beliefs and assumptions which would result in their being no more authoritative *for him* than the beliefs and assumptions held by others, or, for that matter, the beliefs and assumptions he himself used to hold. The fear that in a world of indifferently authorized norms and values the individual is without a basis for action is groundless because no one is indifferent to the norms and values that enable his consciousness. It is in the name of personally held (in fact they are doing the holding) norms and values that the individual acts and argues, and he does so with the full confidence that attends belief. When his beliefs change, the norms and values to which he once gave unthinking assent will have been demoted to the status of opinions and become the objects of an analytical and critical attention; but that attention will itself be enabled by a new set of norms and values that are, for the time being, as unexamined and undoubted as those they displace. The pint is that there is never a moment when one believes nothing, when consciousness is innocent of any and all categories of thought, and whatever categories of thought are operative at a given moment will serve as an undoubted ground.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Is this the idea of worldview as put forth in terms of philosophy of language? If not, how compatible is this idea with the idea of worldview and presupposition?</p>
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