[MD] Proposed Wiki definiton of SOM

[John Carl]

Thanks Ian,

To be perfectly honest, I snagged the definition from Wiki on Philosophical
Realism
 and substituted SOM for the term everywhere it appeared in the wiki
article.  My aim, as you can imagine, was to get some feedback on the idea
that SOM and Philosophical Realism are one and the same.

Are they?

John


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Ian Glendinning <ian.glendinning at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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