Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 7:29 am
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 5:08 am
Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 12:50 pm
Your revised conclusion does nothing to sort out the problem. You are still merely repeating the claim that
reality is 'contingent upon the human conditions' - which is false. For the record, here's your claim:
Premise: Reality emerged and is realized [contingent upon human conditions] prior to being perceived, known and described in human ways. (Note: these are your exact words above.)
Conclusion: Therefore, reality is not absolutely independent from humans [as claimed by philosophical realists] but only relatively independent from humans/somehow entangled with the human conditions [as per philosophical antiRealists -Kantian]. (Note: these are your exact words above.)
Your claim that reality 'emerged' and 'is realised' prior to its being perceived, known and described by humans is, to repeat, banal. Of course it did. The universe existed long before humans appeared. And that existence obviously had nothing to do with humans. So your claim that its emergence and realisation was/is 'contingent upon the human conditions' is false.
PH: You are still merely repeating the claim that
reality is 'contingent upon the human conditions' - which is false.
Your claim that reality 'emerged' and 'is realised' prior to its being perceived, known and described by humans is, to repeat, banal. Of course it did. The universe existed long before humans appeared. And that existence obviously had nothing to do with humans.
Can you prove your claim is really true?
I'm happy to accept the evidence from natural science - the 'gold standard'.
Natural Science or just Science i.e. the Science FS or FSERC is the Gold Standard of reality and objectivity.
The science FS is contingent to a human-based [collective of subjects].
Whatever the scientific reality, truth, knowledge or fact, it is established by a consensus of peers within the specific scientific field.
However, there are two contentious views to the science FS, i.e.
1. Scientific Realism
2. Scientific AntiRealism i.e. scientific empirical realism
Scientific realism is
a subset of philosophical realism; it believe in the noumenal thing, i.e. it exists beyond the scientific FS regardless of whether there are humans or not.
However, being Science [fallible and human-based] merely
ASSUME the noumenal thing exists beyond the scientific reach awaiting discovery.
That the noumenal is
ASSUMED, means that it is not taken a really real but merely a guide and direction for science to work with.
So there is also the Correspondence Theory of Truth and its associated problem in this case, regardless of any denial by you.
If you reified the noumenal as really real, you are chasing an illusion because there is nothing real there but merely an assumption.
On the other hand, scientific empirical realism accept what science confirm as real is really-real [credibly the most real, the gold standard] but it is qualified to the conditions of the scientific FS.
There is no need at all to speculate there is something real
beyond [transcendental] what science confirmed as scientifically real.
As I had demonstrated, whatever is reality must first emerged [FSER], is realized as real, then perceived and known via the scientific FS [or other FS] and is described via the linguistic FS.
Reality: Emergence & Realization Prior to Perceiving, Knowing & Describing
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=40145
So whilst resorting to
Gold Standard, i.e. natural science or just science - the science FSERC, you have not "proven" your philosophical realism to be really true as absolutely independent of humans/mind, i.e. it exists regardless of whether there are humans or not.