Christoper Gabro - Merleau-Ponty

Merleau-Ponty is critical of empiricism in that it sets an irreducible gap between the subject and object because the empircist says that all knowledge is from oberserving the outside world.  He is critical of rationalism and idealism because these two modes set a conceptual-perceptual category, this has issues because the world slips past us and casuses delay, there is never a perfect synthesis.  Scientific Objectivity is a view from nowhere, you can't abstract the subject from the world.

Merleau-Ponty wants to reutrn to an embodied ground of expereince that first makes these abstractions and models possible.