Post Structuralism and atomised postition

What about positions that acknowledge universal aspect to self

eg Deleuze (Based on Wilhelm Reich)

c.f universalising truth claims?

preemptive, stereotyped c.f. provisional (Kelly)

Closure and Enquiry

Human Perceptual Capacity - limitation of the information receptor facilities. (Simon)
Linguistic limitations - precision,capacity,clarity, (+structure)
Educational-  bounded nature of acquired knowledge sets,  that ultimately condition the structure and development of the conceptual framework though which the enquirer  operates
CulturalNorms/Development - feedback from percieved authorities
Weltanschauung :WorldView (identity?)
Roland Barthes (1915-1980) added a third possible step in world view or Weltanschauung in which metacognitive schema such as liberty, sexuality, autonomy, etc. create a framework of reference from which more abstract meanings may be attributed to the signs, depending on the context.


Practical aspects- constraints, conditions and influences of the 'real world'
D'arcy
Paradigm - Kuhn
Prediction/Induction -Hume

Performative Theory of truth

Performative theory of truth

Attributed to P. F. Strawson is the performative theory of truth which holds that to say "'Snow is white' is true" is to perform the speech act of signaling one's agreement with the claim that snow is white (much like nodding one's head in agreement). The idea that some statements are more actions than communicative statements is not as odd as it may seem. Consider, for example, that when the bride says "I do" at the appropriate time in a wedding, she is performing the act of taking this man to be her lawful wedded husband. She is not describing herself as taking this man, but actually doing so (perhaps the most thorough analysis of such "perlocutionary" statements is J. L. Austin, "How to Do Things With Words"^[31]).

Strawson holds that a similar analysis is applicable to all speech acts, not only to special perlocutionary ones: "To say a statement is true is not to make a statement about a statement, but rather to perform the act of agreeing with, accepting, or endorsing a statement. When one says 'It's true that it's raining,' one asserts no more than 'It's raining.' The function of [the statement] 'It's true that...' is to agree with, accept, or endorse the statement that 'it's raining.'"^[32]

Values and Truth Claims: Post-Structuralism? (Tutorial)

Are values always based on truth claims? ( Need examples (probably not?))

If they are, and if a post-structuralism insists on the abandonment of truth claims then it must be value free?

(In tutorial - It's suggested post structural research is Value Laden not Value Free - Example of )

( in the sense of taking a position -  ?)


Also Actor Networks - are they inevitably positivist? (Social Constructivism)
(Could you depict effects on self definition?)