Adrian Before eating anyone for breakfast, it might be worth seeing what that person has to say.
Fred On Sep 6, 11:23 pm, adrf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/5555b41... > > > 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- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
