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you don't have to get to questions about what "reality" is--hell, i'm not always sure i know and the more i think on it the less i know about what "reality" is and how many of them there are----this is a matter of statements. in the study, you had a series of statements issued by the administration and a series of demonstrations that those statements were false. the problem is the evaluation of these statements--how do you do it? what factors shape that? one way of thinking about that would be to analyze, to the extent that one can, the projections as to the world that each series of statements triggered. another would be to ask about relations toward these statements---that's the route this study went in. what constitutes compelling evidence? what constitutes a convincing argument? what elements or assumptions get introduced that shape these judgments? to what extent can these factors be grouped? once you group them, how to you evaluate that grouping?
like that.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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