In what sense is this particular prediction "testable"? What specific experiential consequences can we deductively explicate from it? How would we the...
Charles Sanders Peirce's careful distinction of existence from reality might be helpful here. "Real" means that something possesses properties suffici...
Would it be fair to characterize your view as "holding that the potential, or possible, is nothing but what the actual makes it to be" (Peirce, CP 1.4...
Are you saying that truth is a property of judgments about propositions, and thus subjective, rather than a property of propositions themselves, and t...
We seem to be on the same page here. By what other criterion, besides describing a fact, would someone judge a sentence--or rather, the proposition th...
Is "there is no such thing as objective truth" a true proposition? If not, then why should anyone believe it? And how can it nevertheless be a fact th...
Is it an objective truth that no truths are objective? This distinction does not make any sense to me. All facts are propositions--ones that correspon...
With appropriate caveats about the limited usefulness of simplistic labels, it seems to me that Terrapin Station is a nominalist and Metaphysician Und...
What about logically prior? I would suggest that a general form is a continuum of potential forms, and a particular form is an actualization of one su...
It depends on what you mean by "adequately." In a sense, no particular representation can adequately express the general characteristics of any form, ...
Who said anything about visualizing? There are other forms of representation, especially in the imagination. Probably the most accurate general repres...
We have no better way to represent it physically, but--at least arguably--we can represent it more perfectly in the imagination, in accordance with th...
No actual drawing of a triangle has three perfectly straight sides and exactly three angles, as required by the definition. Every actual drawing of a ...
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