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S tudying the Other, Understanding the Self marks what may be a milestone in dialogue among all four parties to the discomfort and conflict that marks life in the Western world today: the three Abrahamic communities and the secular modern West. The conflict among these four is often characterized in the secular West as a conflict between fundamentalism and secularism. More traditional proponents of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism may actually accept the characterization, while reversing the implicit lesson about who is on the side of the good.
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See Basit Bilal Koshul, The Postmodern Significance of Max Weber’s Legacy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
See Hans Reichenbach, Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Berekely: University of California Press, 1 1998), Ch. 30 (“Three-Valued Logic”), passim.
See Charles S. Peirce, Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, eds. Harteshorne and Weiss (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934), p. 35 vol. III, Par. 45–149, 214–251, 328–358, 636–643, passim. Readers may note that my distinction between “twos and threes” comes right out of Peirce’s phenomenological distinction among the categories he calls “Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness.” See Collected Papers, Vol. I, Par. 300–353, passim.
See Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 3rd edition (New York: Prentice Hall, 1999); John L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, 2nd edition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005) and Paul Grice, Studies in the Way of Words (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989).
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Ochs, P. (2007). From Two to Three: To Know Is Also to Know the Context of Knowing. In: Koshul, B.B., Kepnes, S. (eds) Scripture, Reason, and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230605626_9
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