Any thoughts ? — fresco
Try thinking of 'the senses' as being a human concept useful in some contexts. — fresco
you are immediately dismissing the relativity thesis by stepping back into the naive realism of 'objects'. — fresco
presupposes that the word “Existence” does not point to anything with an essence, but to something without an essence, that is, to an empty set, but empty sets can only be contained within sets, and we know that particular reference frames exist...so the reference frame of all reference frames exists, and is an aspect of the Essence of Existence itself.Existence' is a human concept — fresco
Try thinking of 'the senses' as being a human concept useful in some contexts. — fresco
any supposed 'permanencies' in that world boil down to 'persistences of expectation of events'. — fresco
Then the concept that I have of your mind is identical to your mind, and your internet post and the following replies are a concept that originated in my mind when I read them, not yours (because your's and others' "minds" is just a concept that originated in my mind)? Is that not solipsism in a nutshell?By assertng that 'a concept' is not idential to 'the object it conceives' you are immediately dismissing the relativity thesis by stepping back into the naive realism of 'objects'. Bohr was suggesting that what we call 'objects' are focal aspects of agreement about our experiences denoted by 'words'. Common species physiology tends to imply large areas of agreement which we tend to call 'objects'. — fresco
They are implying that 'meaning' resides in potentially shifting social consenus about joint projects. — fresco
There have even been moves to proscribe the word 'is' as being misleadingly absolutist — fresco
situations involving non physicality. — fresco
And the limitations of static set theory, with its fixed set membership which form the basis of classical logic, have been questioned from the pov of the dynamic 'fuzzy sets' approach. — fresco
Since words are socially acquired — fresco
I think it’s clear there’s something observer independent that you measure when you measure the charge of an electron. The property or feature being measured may not actually ‘be’ an electron - the concept may be incomplete or just a useful fiction to keep track of the properties being measured but that doesn't discount the independence of the actual measurement.By assertng that 'a concept' is not idential to 'the object it conceives' you are immediately dismissing the relativity thesis by stepping back into the naive realism of 'objects'. Bohr was suggesting that what we call 'objects' are focal aspects of agreement about our experiences denoted by 'words'. Common species physiology tends to imply large areas of agreement which we tend to call 'objects — fresco
The thesis rejects them by definition. — fresco
ou don't ! All you have is confidence levels of expectancy. — fresco
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