“We ought to take middle reality as realest because it is what our senses lead us to focus on.” But don’t they reveal generalities first?
Month: October 2016
The Pragmatic Case for Middle Reality: Replies and Objections 2
Posted in Levels of Reality, and Technical Philosophy
Last time, I argued that intellectual and perceptual maturity attunes us to middle reality — if we judge the middle in terms of parts and wholes. The better we…
You’d expect organisms that survive to be attuned to reality, and most attuned to what is most real. We’re attuned to things that are on the middle level of reality. So . . .
When I say reality is realest in the middle, what do I mean? Well, let me explain. No, please let me explain. This is so important to me. Pleeeeease
Imitating Aristotle leads us to conclude that reality is in the middle. And we should imitate Aristotle. Down with reductionism and its opposite!
Idea: Reductionism is incompatible with one form of generalism, but not the other. Reductionists believe reality is at the bottom. You don’t really exist. You are just your parts,…
Idea: There are good reasons for believing that the more original a thing is, the realer it is. Let’s call reality-is-at-the-top-ism in general, “generalism.” The…
There’s a mix of reasons for believing that larger, more inclusive things are realer. Some of them seem perfectly reasonable. Others are questionable.
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