Greetings,
STRUAN:
"Secondly, I didn't say the subject object division is a myth. I said subject object METAPHYSICS is
a
myth. On many occasions I have explicitly accepted the subject object dichotomy - but that dichotomy
is not a metaphysical position which anyone holds."
Let me elaborate. The subject/object dichotomy is a psychological phenomena. It describes how a
conscious human being relates to his environment. It therefore takes as its starting point the
existence of a human being. This is not metaphysics but psychological analysis. Metaphysics concerns
itself with the existence and properties of the presupposed (in SO thinking) human being and the
world which exists apart from human observation. (One glance at the fossil record should be enough
to dissuade those who claim that nothing exist outside of human observation)
I am now 95% convinced that the MoQ is not actually a metaphysics for the same reason, but this will
require some more research.
Struan
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Struan Hellier
< mailto:struan@clara.co.uk>
"All our best activities involve desires which are disciplined and
purified in the process."
(Iris Murdoch)
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