[MD] Experience, essentialism, physicalism

[Scott Roberts]

Ham,

I want to correct the following response that I gave in my last post:

Scott said:
Ok. Then your Essence corresponds to Wolff's Nirvana (pure awareness, like
your "absolute 'Sensibility'"), except that Nirvana is not the source of its
opposite, which Wolff calls the Universe (the totality of possible objects).
Instead, Wolff puts Consciousness-without-an-object as "containing" both
Nirvana and Universe, which exist as mutual opposites.

Scott now says:
Actually, I recall Wolff does say something like "Nirvana can be thought of 
as First Cause of the Universe", though his tone in saying it was more like: 
if you want to think in terms of the source of the Universe, Nirvana is that 
source. This connects to the aphorism about the "power of awareness that 
projects objects". In any case, what I said above is wrong. But he does 
metaphysically place Consciousness-without-an-object atop both Nirvana and 
Universe, with Nirvana and Universe  in opposition.

- Scott