Jeepers, first time I can take two potshots at once. Sam, What you call reality amounts to the physical world or phenomenological. Recent findings show that this is an appearance of illusion or a ghostly or astravlevent set. A lot of people latch onto a facet or aspect of this world and take it for the complete answer. Diversity is variations on a theme one can call archetypes. So you're right but incomplete. Besides as I keep on repeating a fact is a PRODUCT of a theory, which is a pattern that serve as a logicalised background of a percept or observation. Fact is cognate to feitico, west Indian voodoo jargon, which means fetish. So in a catchphrase don't make a fetish of any fact. adrian
Sam Carana wrote: > Hi Fred, > > Good to hear from you. I believe that diversity is fundamental to > reality. > Did you read my recent thread on this, at: > http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology/browse_frm/thread/5555b41cef633d3e > > Cheers! > Sam Carana > ONTO Fred, One of the reputations I acquired is that I eat PRofs for breakfast. I don't know where you got the source for your deep uncertainty, but it's neither original nor very deep. It may be Schrodinger and all that, the evidence from Quantum Physics that consciousness affects our choices, Occultism in some flavours oR theological free will or, again, the uncertainties of any future because it still does not exist and all that and all that. I devised around it what I call syntology which includes IF in its many flavours, partly derived from Vaihinger's AS IF about fictions book, as a necessary precondition of beliefs, the assumptions PROFs never mention and which I like hunting down until I discovered there's too dang many of them. Besides "what if" as a topic has gone pop and its of course explored by story tellers as well as now also those in search of finding macro occassions of the quantal which is also still incomplete, but nil desperandum, they may get there yet. NOR do I pay anything whatever, ever, for professorial books of any kind unless they are radically innovative. As an intuitive these things come to me as long as ?I? Patiently make like a chicken hatching eggs. If you imagine that folks in this group are hungrily waiting for professorial wisdom, be prepared for a disappointment of your expectancies which should be lined up alongside beliefs and assumptions. I have a triple patch for it, Whatever you desire it may happen, so be careful, anything but may happen or nothing happens at all, as a replacement of Quantal and any other statistics. I did not think of that as very deep because it is one variation of the law of three. As someone once told be be good or careful, to which I replied,'NOPE, just fast enough to get out from under when needed.', quite spontaneously without even thinking. So in place Of Apollo and his bear pet, another friend suggested I have an octopus as a pet. Besides all that epistemologies are maps of the world to stave off uncertainties and play it safe, one of those unwarranted social assumptions. They have nothing whatever to do with true reality. Epistles are a bit like sermons you know. There ain't such a beast found in Indian or Egyptian polytheism; funny that. adrian > > On Sep 6, 9:54 am, "Fred Leavitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just found out about and joined this group. Please consider reading my new >> book The Deep Uncertainty of Existence. It's about radical skepticism. I've >> written several other books (about drugs and about research methodology in >> medicine and the behavioral sciences) and all have been well-received, but >> this is the only one that makes me proud (and confused). >> >> You can read a bit more about The Deep Uncertainty ... at >> >> http://www.synergebooks.com/ebook_deepuncertainty.html >> <https://email.csueastbay.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.syn... >> ks.com/ebook_deepuncertainty.html> . >> >> Cordially, >> >> Fred Leavitt >> >> Professor, Psychology Department >> >> Cal State University >> >> Hayward, CA > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
