tapaticmadness wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 2:26 am
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:30 am
Whatever the mixture of philosophy one adopt, if there is an ultimate tincture smell of philosophical realism, then it is infected overall as philosophical realism which is not realistic.
As for Kant, have a look at the paintings os Cezanne and you will see how I think the writings of Kant all fit together. ...
Nah! there is no comparison in the case of Philosophy which is like Science.
Philosophers like any one else do change their views in the light of new evidences and arguments.
Therefore whatever Kant represent would be all his philosophical theories that was not abandoned nor superseded by his latest views.
Now I want to talk about entanglement. Let’s say that you are writing something. There is you and there are the words you have written. I think you might say that you are entangled with the English language while getting the finished product out there to be read. You ware in the entanglement of writing. More than that you are in a struggling entanglement with what you are writing about. The relationship is difficult. I want to focus in on the relation in that relationship.
The basis of Entanglement is relationship, i.e. in this case, the inevitable relationship of humans are part and parcel of reality which comprised all-there-is.
My contention (another great word) is that relations exist and they are universals. I also think they exist external to what they relate. That is Russell’s Doctrine of External Relations.
Relationship between particulars exist but they are not universal they are NOT independent of what they are related with.
Relationship are conceptualized out of human minds individually or collectively.
- Take the relationship between a father and son.
This is purely driven by human psychology and the human knowledge of biology, genetics, etc. and abstracted by humans as a convenience to facilitate survival.
So here you are writing. Writing is a universal, a thing, and you are momentarily possessed by that. Writing has come to you and taken over. You are not doing the writing, but rather the writing is doing you. You are now “in” a structure of Writing. You are related to your topic by that relation. So here we now have three structures: there’s You and there’s the Topic you are writing about and there is your writing up that topic. Three separate structures. Can we unite all those three things into one super-structure. NO! You are a multiple ant that is the end of it. You are you and you are in the relating called writing. You and the writing are two, not one. You are other. You are a multiple. I think your idea of an Entanglement is an attempt to deny the multiplicity and find a unity. But the unity isn’t there.
"Writing" is merely a concept invented by humans collectively as I had argued is from the pattern recognition faculty inherent within the human brain/mind from similarity of actions and results.
Yes, me and my writing are two as perceived within common sense.
But at a meta-level of consideration, they are reduced to one common thing, i.e. "me".
There is diversity and there is unity - from common sense,
and from the higher philosophical sense, there is
unity within diversity.
You cannot sense "unity within diversity" due to a lack of competence in thinking more deeply and widely.
It’s, of course, the same in physics, where Quantum theory and Relativity don’t fit together and the Unified Field Theory is elusive. My guess is that it isn’t there. Physical reality is not one harmonious thing. Nor is your physical body. Every thing that we think of as one thing is really a multiple. So is my writing, as you will see, if you ever try to read it.
So I as a thinking mind am not entangled with the material world. There is however another structure in me - there's no "me" there - that a Relation has possessed. I? am not one thing. Yes, this is anti-substantialism.
Whatever is Quantum Theory and Relativity, they [as in principles] are all entangled with the human conditions collectively.
- Note, say, as an analogy, we take a drop of water,
there are individual H2O molecules,
there is no way to claim the H2O molecules are independent of each other within that drop of water.
As such, it is natural, all the individual H2O molecules are entangled together to form that drop of water.
We replace the analogy of water with Reality.
there are individual particulars within that reality which are seemingly independent,
but like the H2O in that drop of water, all the individual things are entangled together as Reality.
Note my arguments in the previous posts.
Therefore whatever individual things you pick which you from a narrow perspective think are independent of each other,
from a WIDER PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE, they like the individual H2O molecules in that drop of water, all those individual things are entangled together as Reality.
You need to buy a more sophisticated higher perspective glasses to view reality from a more realistic perspective.