{"id":1853,"date":"2010-01-22T10:43:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2010-01-22T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:44:00","slug":"gimme-that-shortcut-its-all-too-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1853","title":{"rendered":"Gimme that shortcut; it&#8217;s all too hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/18\/must-there-be-a-bottom-line\/\">Stanley Fish on Barbara Herrnstein Smith\u2019s new book<\/a> <em>Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The assumption she challenges \u2014 or, rather, says we can do without \u2014 is that underlying it all is some foundation or nodal point or central truth or master procedure that, if identified, allows us to distinguish among ways of knowing and anoint one as the lodestar of inquiry. The desire, she explains, is to sift through the claims of those perspectives and methods that vie for \u201cunderneath-it-all status\u201d (a wonderful phrase) and validate one of them so that we can proceed in the confidence that our measures, protocols, techniques and procedures are in harmony with the universe and perhaps with God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Fish on Barbara Herrnstein Smith\u2019s new book Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion: The assumption she challenges \u2014 or, rather, says we can do without \u2014 is that underlying it all is some foundation or nodal point or central truth or master procedure that, if identified, allows us to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}