[MD] Ham thinks the MOQ is a form of phenomenology

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Squonkonguitar at aol.com:

> Quoting Squonkonguitar at aol.com:

> Mark:  Hello Platt.
> I did not write this, i think it was either David or Ham?
> Actually, i think it is Ham.

Sorry for the false attribution.
  
> Two areas may be becoming confused here:
> 1. Phenomenalism.
> 2. Phenomonology.
> In a nutshell...
> 1. Phenomenalism treats experience in terms of sensations.
> 2. Phenomonology treats objects or processes of experience as  intentions.
>  
> Taking the example of a chair: For 1 the chair is our sensations of the  
> chair, for 2 a chair as an object or process of experience is a 'chair' in  virtue
> 
> of our cultural and psychological expectations of what a chair is; if you  
> are a certain person from a certain culture and you encounter a chair it is a  
> chair because you intend it to be a chair.
>  
> Metaphysics could be confined to sensations and sensations could  be 
> construed as pure ideas.
> If that is the way you wish to view metaphysics?

I got confused because someone described phenomonolgy as "a way of describing
experience." Since metaphysics is about reality and we know reality through
experience I concluded the two were the same, only different in name. My mistake.
I'm more familiar with the distinction between materialism (the world exists
whether we experience it or not) and idealism (the world only exists when we
experience it.) So I thought maybe phenomenalism was another word of idealism.
Thanks for helping remove the fog from my mind.  




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