Is the 13.7 billion years of physical history and 3.5 billion years of organic history that conditioned reality [all-there-is] including humanity and humans, relevant and has a significant impact to any philosophical issue?
1. Philosophical Realists who claim reality is absolutely human/mind independent, i.e. it exists regardless of whether there are humans or not, DO NOT see the relevance of the above physical and organic history.
Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 7:34 am This 'emergence' of life, including humans, is irrelevant.
2. On the other hand, the philosophical antirealists [Kantian & like] insist the 13.7 billion years of physical history and 3.5 billion years of organic history plus the human condition IS NOT absolutely human/mind independent of the reality they are intricately part and parcel of.
Say the conclusion and claim 'Water is H2O';Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 5:42 amMy principle is this;
whatever is real, true [or false], fact, knowledge and objective is contingent upon a human-based framework of emergence, realization and cognition [knowledge] of reality plus
the 13.7 billion years of physical history and 3.5 billion years of organic history that conditioned reality [all-there-is] including humanity and humans.
Who [1 or 2] is more realistic, the philosophical realists or the philosophical antirealists?
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