creators_name: Winter, Blake K.
creators_id: mad2physicist@gmail.com
type: preprint
datestamp: 2009-02-13 01:12:33
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:19
metadata_visibility: show
title: Divisibility, Logic, Radical Empiricism, and Metaphysics
subjects: phil-mind
subjects: phil-epist
subjects: phil-metaphys
full_text_status: public
keywords: Metaphysics, empiricism, perception
note: Currently submitted for consideration by Diametros, http://www.diametros.iphils.uj.edu.pl/
abstract: We will explore the problem of the manner in which the world may be divided into parts, and how this affects the application of logic. We will also consider how this affects the problem of knowing the world. Such considerations bring us to discuss how the divisibility of the world relates to idealism, realism, and the radical empiricist program of James. The epistemological difficulties sometimes associated with realism will in particular be shown to be in principle the result of misunderstanding the nature of the divisibility of the world. When such divisibility is properly understood, we claim that there is no epistemological dilemma, at least in principle, although of course in practice there may be other difficulties. We conclude by tentatively analyzing these practical difficulties.
date: 2009-02-06
date_type: submitted
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Winter, Mr. Blake K.  (2009) Divisibility, Logic, Radical Empiricism, and Metaphysics.  [Preprint]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/6351/1/Divisibility.pdf