RE: Short essay on dualism, idealism, & materialism as concerns Q: What is a table?
February 25, 2017 at 3:41 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2017 at 3:46 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 25, 2017 at 11:45 am)Mudhammam Wrote: That sounds like a pragmatic nominal definition of a table. But my concern is what is the "stuff" of a table -- does it exist independently of my experience?Yup. There were tables before you were born, and there will be tables after you die. Your individual experience doesn't seem to be doing anything to prop the existence of tables up.
Quote:What does it mean to speak of something that in principle is not experienced (namely, the table as it exists unperceived)?Like, talking about a table in another room, that you cannot currently see, for example? Or talking about something which cannot be experienced? The noumenal world, as it were, lol?
Quote:Can I know that anything exists in such a way?Depends, if the former, above, I'd say so. If the latter, I don't think so.
Quote:What distinguishes "impressions of tables" from "ideas of tables" -- not merely in the sense that in perception a table appears more vivid while in thought or memory it is fuzzier and more abstract -- but what does it mean for something to be concrete vs. abstract and how do these relate to each other?
You'd find it difficult to set your dinner plate on the idea of a table, there's something different about the impression you have of a table in front of you that goes beyond fuzziness or abstraction in thought or memory. Don't you think?
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