On 9/5/2011 1:40 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
Hi Brent,
On 9/5/2011 3:50 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/5/2011 12:02 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Realism and nominalism in philosophy are related to universals (I guess that numbers
could be probably considered as universals as well). A simple example:
A is a person;
B is a person.
Does A is equal to B? The answer is no, A and B are after all different persons. Yet
then the question would be if something universal and related to a term "person"
exists in A and B.
Realism says that universals do exist independent from the mind (so in this sense it
has nothing to do with the physical realism and materialism),
I think of that as Platonism. I think of realism as just the theory that things exist
independent of minds.
Brent
How does realism explain the means by which knowledge of these 'things that exist
independent of the mind" obtains? Is there some form of interaction between those
'independent things' and our minds? If so, that mechanism is this and how does it work?
Those things interact with a brain which instantiates the mental processes. At least
that's the theory.
Brent
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