On 5/17/2018 9:04 AM, Stephen C. Rose wrote:
My point is simply that reality has all sorts of permutations and that to disclude things is to complexify.
I agree. And I recommend the anti-razor by Walter Chatton, who engaged in years of debates with William of Ockham. Both Chatton and Ockham were students of John Duns Scotus. Ockham was a nominalist who rejected the realism of Scotus. But Chatton was a realist who defended Scotus in debates with Ockham. (All three of them were Scots at Oxford.) See https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/walter-chatton/ Brief summary of the anti-razor: If a proposition p is true and its truth depends on the existence of something x, then the existence of x must be assumed. But Chatton stated his anti-razor in several different versions, all of which imply my summary. John
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