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Article #878Re: The nature of reality.
From: Sarge Gerbode
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1988 07:49
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1988 07:49
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In article <984@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes: >So reality of the territory is undecidable. What about reality of the >map? Sarge, I think you'd claim that an individual's truth claims about >their mental phenomena are incorrigible. When I was reading in >Cognitive Science I did come accross some pretty heavy arguments against >this view. >So, what if reality of the map is *also* undecidable? Well, then, uh, I >guess. . .gosh, I'd better be pretty careful going to work today. . >.never know when I met run into a reality pit and spit out a white hole. If reality of the map is undecidable, then, as you imply, we are really f**ked. We can't go on living with that assumption, so, in practice, it's unmakable. And I don't think anyone would really agree that they couldn't have a *representation* of reality, at least. -- "Absolute knowledge means never having to change your mind." Sarge Gerbode Institute for Research in Metapsychology 950 Guinda St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 UUCP: pyramid!thirdi!sarge
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!thirdi!sarge From: sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) Newsgroups: sci.misc,talk.philosophy.misc Subject: Re: The nature of reality. Message-ID: <364@thirdi.UUCP> Date: 23 Mar 88 07:49:58 GMT References: <343@thirdi.UUCP> <732@actnyc.UUCP> <356@thirdi.UUCP> <27440@linus.UUCP> <363@thirdi.UUCP> <984@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> Reply-To: sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) Organization: Institute for Research in Metapsychology Lines: 24 Keywords: reality credibility validity Summary: If the map is unreal, we've had it.