Right, that’s fair, but it’s not really apparent from your reply which is A and which is ~A. I understand that physical realists say the same things as shminux, who professes not to be a physical realist—but then, I bet physical realists say that water is wet, too...
I don’t know that shminux has inadvertently endorsed A and ~A. I’m suspicious that this has occurred because he resists the standard physical realist definition of territory / reality, but responds to a quasi-anti-realist position with an physical realist answer that I suspect depends on the rejected definition of reality.
If I knew precisely where the contradiction was, I’d point it out explicitly. But I don’t, so I can’t.
Sure, my criticism has an implied “And I’m concerned you’ve managed to endorse A and ~A by accident.”
Right, that’s fair, but it’s not really apparent from your reply which is A and which is ~A. I understand that physical realists say the same things as shminux, who professes not to be a physical realist—but then, I bet physical realists say that water is wet, too...
I don’t know that shminux has inadvertently endorsed A and ~A. I’m suspicious that this has occurred because he resists the standard physical realist definition of territory / reality, but responds to a quasi-anti-realist position with an physical realist answer that I suspect depends on the rejected definition of reality.
If I knew precisely where the contradiction was, I’d point it out explicitly. But I don’t, so I can’t.
Yeah, fair enough, I don’t think I understand his position myself at this point…