Dear Stan, lists - : F: So Howard's claim about the indecidability of epistemologies does not extend to his own basic epistemologic assumptions which remain stably realist.
S: I do not recall that Howard has urged the philosophical realist argument. ??? Of course he hasn't. He has urged the indecidability of epistemologies (of realist vs. nominalism etc.) But my argument is that before considering epistemologies at all, he has set up a scene consisting of matter, symbols, laws which are then taken for granted as BEFORE any epistemological indecidability ...
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