I didn’t link it in my original reply by work on natural abstractions is also related. My take is that if natural abstractions exist they don’t actually rehabilitate noumena but they do explain why it intuitively feels like there are noumena. However abstractions are still phenomena (except insofar as all phenomena are of course embedded in the world) even if they are picking up on what I might metaphorically describe as the natural contours of the territory.
To me this seems obvious: noumena feel real to most people because they’re captured by their ontology. It takes a lot of work for a human mind to learn not to jump straight from sensation to reification, and even with training there’s only so much a person can do because the mind has lots of low-level reification “built in” that happens prior to conscious awareness. Cf. noticing
I didn’t link it in my original reply by work on natural abstractions is also related. My take is that if natural abstractions exist they don’t actually rehabilitate noumena but they do explain why it intuitively feels like there are noumena. However abstractions are still phenomena (except insofar as all phenomena are of course embedded in the world) even if they are picking up on what I might metaphorically describe as the natural contours of the territory.
How do they explain why it feels like there are noumena? (Also by “feels like” I’d want to include empirical observations of nexusness.)
To me this seems obvious: noumena feel real to most people because they’re captured by their ontology. It takes a lot of work for a human mind to learn not to jump straight from sensation to reification, and even with training there’s only so much a person can do because the mind has lots of low-level reification “built in” that happens prior to conscious awareness. Cf. noticing