Hi John, I think that's a little too "nuanced". Not wrong just need something snappier before all the qualified examples.
For example, first sentence - the "our" is so much more important than "reality". Great start though. Lets work on a definitive sentence - says the man who abhors definitions :-) Ian On 27 Jan 2014 18:23, "John Carl" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > 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
