Re: subjective reality

From: Stephen Paul King <stephenk1.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:53:32 -0400

Hi Lee,

    Just one point while I have some time and mental clarity. Can a Realist
accept that "a wholly independent world "out there" exists and existed
before he did" and yet can admit that the particular properties of this
"independent world" are not *definite* prior to the specification of a
particular observational context?
    I am claiming that we should not conflate *existence* with *property
definiteness*.

Onward!

Stephen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin.domain.name.hidden>
To: "EverythingList" <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 11:28 PM
Subject: RE: subjective reality


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> The realist does *not* want the world to be "as it seems to be". No,
> the realist focuses on the fact that a wholly independent world "out
> there" exists and existed before he did. In fact, it is the subjectivists
> who start calling their own unassailable introspections "reality".
Received on Mon Aug 15 2005 - 23:55:25 PDT