If you leave the > door open a crack, maybe take a peek through from > time to time, you might one day see something > interesting. So I was just throwing it out there for > the heck of it.
It definitely launched me into a level of conceptual thinking that I don't often hang out in. A much appreciated mental goosing! --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > snip The concept was not created for that > > > > purpose. > > > > > > Curtis, I seriously doubt it was "created for a > > > purpose," i.e., by philosophers as a conceptual > > > tool. > > > > That sounds possible but its origin is presocratic so I > > don't know if we can get to the bottom of it. > > Even if some presocratic philosophers came up > with it one night in a deep discussion and > decided it was a useful conceptual tool, what > I'm suggesting is that it's the sort of thing > that might occur to anybody who tended toward > introspection, whether they'd ever had any > contact with philosophy or not. > > <snip> > > It is a radical conceptual departure from our everyday > > experience. > > I'd say it's a radical conceptual departure from > how we've been trained to think about our > everyday experience. There isn't anything in our > experience *per se* that actually privileges one > interpretation over the other. > > <snip> > > It doesn't have to > > > change anything about how you interact with the > > > world; it just changes your understanding of the > > > meaning of "interact with the world." > > > > This is a cool point. I agree and acknowledge my limits > > in speculating at this level of abstraction. It is also > > why I have little interest in theoretical physics, I know > > my limitations. > > Oh, pooh. Your limitations are where you draw them. > > I have no idea how the notion might be useful. It > just seems to me it's a mistake to invest everything > in the Standard View when there's no way of proving > it, or of disproving solipsism. If you leave the > door open a crack, maybe take a peek through from > time to time, you might one day see something > interesting. So I was just throwing it out there for > the heck of it. >
