On 4/22/2019 2:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote:
On Monday, April 22, 2019 at 4:08:12 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
On 4/22/2019 1:56 PM, Philip Thrift wrote:
The Kantian view is that *reality* is actually really real. It is
there whether there are any of us (or anyone else) thinking
beings around to agree about or argue about anything.
Really?
What people agree (or disagree) about, "intersubjective" or
otherwise (and it is questionable these days in 2019 what
agreement there really is) are *theories of reality*.
Most theories (and all the useful ones) are not theories of
reality, they are theories of a part of reality, i.e. a domain in
which the theory makes accurate and reliable predictions.
Brent
“All human progress has been made by studying the shadows on the
cave wall.”
--- Sean Carroll
Sean is a Platonist. Just like Vic said.
Have you read the parable of the cave??
Brent
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