RE: Platonism vs Realism WAS: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

From: Stathis Papaioannou <stathispapaioannou.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:04:03 +1000

Peter Jones writes:

> A claim about truth as opposed to existence cannot
> support the conclusion that matter does not actually exist.

It can if you can show that the mental does not supervene
on the physical. This is far from a generally accepted fact,
but there but I am not yet aware of convincing arguments
against the sort of challenge posed to the supervenience
theory by eg. Tim Maudlin - unless you reject computationalism.

Stathis Papaioannou

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