On 23 Jun 2016, at 08:26, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote:
"In all cases, Knowledge implies a combination of Thoughts and Things.
Without this combination, it would not be Knowledge.
Without Thoughts, there could be no connexion;
without Things, there could be no reality.
Thoughts and Things are so intimately combined in our Knowledge,
that we do not look upon them as distinct."
---William Whewell (1840)
Yes, that's the (Theaetetus' idea), if you interpret "thought" by
"belief", and things by true or real.
It is a very old idea. Socrates (and Gerson) refuted it, but Church
thesis and/or incompleteness refutes Socrates' and Gerson's
refutation. I don't know of any other theory which remains coherent
with the antic dream or simulation argument.
Of course, using the term "things" in this context is probably a trace
of Aristotelianism, with the belief that there is a reality made up of
things. Both computationalism and quantum mechanics suggest a more
relational view of reality.
Bruno
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