SOM is the belief that our reality, or some aspect of it, is ontologically independent of our conceptual schemes, perceptions, linguistic practices, beliefs, etc.
SOM may be spoken of with respect to other minds, the past, the future, universals, mathematical entities (such as natural numbers), moral categories, the material world, and thought. SOM is promoted in an unqualified sense, in that it asserts the mind-independent existence of a visible world, as opposed to skepticism and solipsism. Philosophers who profess SOM state that truth consists in the mind's correspondence to reality. SOMists tend to believe that whatever we believe now is only an approximation of reality and that every new observation brings us closer to understanding reality. In its Kantian sense, SOM is contrasted with idealism. In a contemporary sense, SOM is contrasted with the MoQ primarily in the philosophy of science. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
