I hope so! what improvements exactly do you suggest? (besides emphasizing "our" reality?)
And isn't the similarity of understanding for the philosophical term significant? J On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Ian Glendinning <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > 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
