[MD] Thought of the day

[Platt Holden]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:34 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Platt said:
>
> When you put Quality in front of everything else, including experience
> itself,  you escape the S/O prison. The division is broken. You are freed
> from the separate-self sense. You cease to exist and reality is exposed.
>
> dmb says:
>
> There is one big problem with this formulation. You can't put Quality in
> front of experience itself because Quality IS experience itself. Similarly,
> radical empiricism says there is nothing outside experience, or if there is
> we have no business making philosophical assertions about it. If it is
> outside experience, then, for all practical purposes it does not exist.
>
> You making sense, for example, is completely outside of anyone's experience
> and therefore does not exist.


[Platt]
So existence depends on intersubjective agreement?  Boy, you are really
cemented in the S/O level of Rorty and company. But, no surprise. Most
academics are.