Re: Dualism and the DA (and torture once more)

From: Quentin Anciaux <quentin.anciaux.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 03:02:16 +0200

Le Dimanche 19 Juin 2005 02:39, Jonathan Colvin a écrit :
> the dualism comes from reifying the 3rd
> person independent universe, and if we accept only the 1st person as
> "real", there is no dualism. It is quite a metaphysical leap, though, to
> discard the 3rd person universe. I'd like to know how to justify such a
> shift.

Yes, exactly... this is what is called a "monism" and not dualism... if you
accept only 1st person experience as real, and 3rd person phenomena as
emergent of 1st person experience, it is not dualism. It is called
phenomenalism.

phenomenalism - The monistic view that all empirical statements (such as the
laws of physics) can be placed in a one to one correspondence with statements
about only the phenomenal (i.e. mental appearances).

Quentin
Received on Sat Jun 18 2005 - 21:08:44 PDT