[MD] Proposed Wiki definiton of SOM

[Ian Glendinning]

Hi John, I think that's a little too "nuanced". Not wrong just need
something snappier before all the qualified examples.

For example, first sentence - the "our" is so much more important than
"reality".

Great start though. Lets work on a definitive sentence - says the man who
abhors definitions :-)
Ian
On 27 Jan 2014 18:23, "John Carl" <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:

> SOM is the belief that our reality, or some aspect of it, is ontologically
> independent of our conceptual schemes, perceptions, linguistic practices,
> beliefs, etc.
>
> SOM may be spoken of with respect to other minds, the past, the future,
> universals, mathematical entities (such as natural numbers), moral
> categories, the material world, and thought.
>
> SOM is promoted in an unqualified sense, in that it asserts the
> mind-independent existence of a visible world, as opposed to skepticism and
> solipsism. Philosophers who profess SOM state that truth consists in the
> mind's correspondence to reality.
>
> SOMists tend to believe that whatever we believe now is only an
> approximation of reality and that every new observation brings us closer to
> understanding reality.  In its Kantian sense, SOM is contrasted with
> idealism. In a contemporary sense, SOM is contrasted with the MoQ primarily
> in the philosophy of science.
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