Do you think it’s possible that the word “exist” is overloaded?
In what sense does snow “existA” but love does not “existA?”
In what sense does “reality exist?” Is this tautology? If so, state it.
“This is the point missed by the postmodernist folks screaming, “But how do you know your beliefs are true?”″
Does setting up straw men serve some sort of emotional purpose? Why do you keep doing it? You haven’t performed an analysis of the “postmodernist position”—you just keep pointing fingers and saying “they’re dumb.”
The (non-moron) post-modernist folks are screaming “How do we even know that ‘reality exists?’ Obviously we do not -know- so it must be definition embedded in cultural/computational context. Therefore when we make statements like “snow is white” what we really -mean- is the set of cultural/computational primitives that that statement can be reduced to. There is no other sense in which the word “mean” makes sense.”
What about self-referent phenomena? Are you actually claiming that no beliefs are disjoint from so-called “logical definitions?”
Do you think it’s possible that the word “exist” is overloaded?
In what sense does snow “existA” but love does not “existA?”
In what sense does “reality exist?” Is this tautology? If so, state it.
“This is the point missed by the postmodernist folks screaming, “But how do you know your beliefs are true?”″
Does setting up straw men serve some sort of emotional purpose? Why do you keep doing it? You haven’t performed an analysis of the “postmodernist position”—you just keep pointing fingers and saying “they’re dumb.”
The (non-moron) post-modernist folks are screaming “How do we even know that ‘reality exists?’ Obviously we do not -know- so it must be definition embedded in cultural/computational context. Therefore when we make statements like “snow is white” what we really -mean- is the set of cultural/computational primitives that that statement can be reduced to. There is no other sense in which the word “mean” makes sense.”
What about self-referent phenomena? Are you actually claiming that no beliefs are disjoint from so-called “logical definitions?”