Re: MD Mysticism and the appearance/reality distinction

From: Elizaphanian (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 12:39:25 BST

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    Hi David,

    I'll leave your other points for the moment (I'll be interested to see what
    Matt's comments on them are - and Scott's) but you said, re the Copernican
    revolution:

    > I'll go along with Matt. This ain't epistemology either. Its not only a
    > Kuhnian paradigm shift, its THEE classic paradigm shift. Perhaps its
    > interesting to not that a shift from of set of static patterns to another,
    > from one cosmology to another, is quite momentus and changes the world.
    > Wonder what that says about a shift from one set of static patterns to DQ.
    > Seems like a further way to go, if you ask me.

    I still want to know how you describe the shift. If you say it isn't
    epistemology, what is it? Can you say anything other than that the
    Copernican system was somehow 'better' than the Ptolemaic (more beautiful -
    so it's not epistemology, it's aesthetics)? How do you characterise the
    change?

    Sam

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