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
