[MD] A realist MOQ

[MarshaV]

Ian,

I don't think anyone is denying 'conventionally real'.  Are they?  
 
 
Marsha





On May 7, 2013, at 4:35 AM, Ian Glendinning <ian.glendinning at gmail.com> wrote:

> Agreed David,
> 
> As I tried to say in starting the "Exist" thread - MoQist or SOMist - it
> doesn't help so say that no real world exists out there. It's the nature of
> that existence that is in question.
> 
> What a MoQist rejects is the objectivity of that existence - which is to
> question the very nature of existence as much as to simply answer "what"
> exists - which is a SOMist question in itself.
> 
> (That said, I believe the feature applied to the continuum of potential
> existence and constraint, is a test of significance, of value. So there is
> an anthropocentric element to "which" patterns we give objective names to,
> and which languish as missed opportunities to be recognised as significant
> patterns. In this ontology its that spectrum of constrained and patterned
> possibility that exists, but exist it certainly does.)
> 
> Ian
>