Hi John, Ah, that would explain "nuanced" - written by a committee. Could do better. Ian
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:21 PM, John Carl <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Ian, > > To be perfectly honest, I snagged the definition from Wiki on Philosophical > Realism > and substituted SOM for the term everywhere it appeared in the wiki > article. My aim, as you can imagine, was to get some feedback on the idea > that SOM and Philosophical Realism are one and the same. > > Are they? > > John > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Ian Glendinning <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> 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 >> > 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
