(October 29, 2015 at 8:05 am)Quantum Wrote:Because what you said implied that those objects don't exist in themselves as they appear in relation to our perception - and the theories we have arrived at first and foremost depend on sense data, and the logical necessity that either follows or in the very least corresponds to it so well.(October 29, 2015 at 8:03 am)Nestor Wrote: Yes, that would sound to me to be very similar to the agnosticism of Kant. Then, are we left with something like John Wheeler's view that the history of life and the universe, as understood by modern science, is in some manner reverse causation effected by the conscious mind? I think for myself I'd rather just confess that I don't really understand the nature of abstract objects, principles, universals, etc. :-P
And why does that crazy stuff follow from what I said? ^^
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