Greetings Economists,
On Oct 5, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
The realist view is that the
outside world exists independent of our perception of it.
Doyle;
Independent of our perceptions? Our perceptions are of the same
material as the rest. They are interconnected. That is the realist
stance. There is no independence or autonomy of perception. An error
is not autonomous, nor is perception anything but material.
The reason for saying this is the conceptual problem with independence
that makes the statement that being wrong (deluded, or alienated) or
apart from existence implies a 'real' unbridgeable gap. That is
Cartesian duality. And duality is not realism.
To illustrate the problem tell me what is the independent mean? In a
material sense?
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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