Jack, List: "The actual result of the Peircean principle regarding inquiry over time" cannot possibly be affirming the reality of an incognizable thing-in-itself because (a) "the Will to Learn" precludes sincere inquirers from ever *assuming* that there is no more to know about any given thing, and (b) no possible future experience could *falsify* their belief that there *is* more to know about it, which corresponds to their habit of continuing to investigate it.
Also, "how people understand the world they live in" has *no effect whatsoever* on "what is 'reality'" because, by definition, the latter is as it is regardless of how anyone understands it. In fact, *misunderstandings* of reality manifest as habits of conduct that would, in the long run, be confounded by additional experience of reality itself. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt / twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sat, Aug 30, 2025, 7:31 PM Jack Cody <[email protected]> wrote: > Jon, > > The ding-an-sich exists outside all formal systems. As a serious question, > what if that is the real? The actual result of the Peircean principle > regarding inquiry over time — that things, all things, as they exist, exist > in themselves insofar as their existence is beyond knowing (as such > actually are). That — realization — if accepted (and you're right about > formal system limitation) is rather profound. It would change a lot of > "things" regarding how people understand the world they live in. That in > turn, has an immense change on what is "reality" and so on and on. > > You've written a post which again I'll read more into tomorrow, that was > just my thought on the last paragraph. > > Best, > Jack > >
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