Or not. There’s a metaphor where concepts and categories are something you see instead of the territory, ie. the veil of perception, but there’s also a metaphor where concepts and categories are a lens through which one sees the territory. Making an arbitrary choice of metaphor doesnt prove anything.
So for this we do have some pretty good evidence, namely the process of observation and perception appears to be a physical one, i.e. we have no evidence that anything can be perceived directly just as it is, and in fact we’d expect the world to look different if we could, such as there being a lack of arguments about the boundaries of categories.
For what? For which of the three or four views you have been putting forward?
Science gives us good evidence against naive realism, but theproblem is that there is more than one alternative to naive realism. So, further arguments are needed to support a specific alternative to naive realism.
Or not. There’s a metaphor where concepts and categories are something you see instead of the territory, ie. the veil of perception, but there’s also a metaphor where concepts and categories are a lens through which one sees the territory. Making an arbitrary choice of metaphor doesnt prove anything.
So for this we do have some pretty good evidence, namely the process of observation and perception appears to be a physical one, i.e. we have no evidence that anything can be perceived directly just as it is, and in fact we’d expect the world to look different if we could, such as there being a lack of arguments about the boundaries of categories.
For what? For which of the three or four views you have been putting forward?
Science gives us good evidence against naive realism, but theproblem is that there is more than one alternative to naive realism. So, further arguments are needed to support a specific alternative to naive realism.
I think what you’re seeing here is that there’s multiple aspects to what I’m saying, which look like different views but really aren’t.
Feel free to explain how they come together.