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- From: solan@smauguio.no (Svein Olav G. Nyberg)
- Subject: Re: On the subject of Kant..
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.100741.15354@ulrik.uio.no>
- Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News)
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- Reply-To: solan@smauguio.no (Svein Olav G. Nyberg)
- Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
- References: <C0JL60.Jww@newcastle.ac.uk> <1993Jan8.195542.27667@shearson.com> <C0nJw2.FEx@newcastle.ac.uk> <1993Jan13.023535.13045@shearson.com> <C0wpF7.8EB@newcastle.ac.uk> <mcdermot-200193081625@138.242.64.152> <1993Jan21.090624.27977@ulrik.uio.no>,<mcdermot-210193065943@138.242.64.152> <C17wEJ.B2r@umassd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:07:41 GMT
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- In article <C17wEJ.B2r@umassd.edu>, pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen
- Grossman) writes:
- |> In article <mcdermot-210193065943@138.242.64.152>,
- mcdermot@mdd.comm.mot.com (Steven McDermott) writes:
- |> >Does anyone know of a logically consistent counter argument to the
- |> >brain-in-the-bottle argument?
- |>
- |> SG Argument is connected to reality but BITB "argument" start by denying
- |> this, so its not an argument. Fallacy of self-exclusion. Always
- identify the
- |> context of an idea before getting inside it. Metaphysics first, then
- |> epistemology.
-
- The BitB does not deny Reality, actually, it only denies that
- Reality is of a particular kind, and instead proposes another.
- The core of BitB is NOT that we positively are and perhaps even
- should know that we are brains in bottles, but that we do not
- have fail-safe knowledge that Reality is what we believe it is.
-
- As for Metaphysics, I'll gladly take the challenge to show that
- BitB is not inconsistent with either Existence, Identity or
- Causality. When I have time, I might also explain why I reject
- any ideas like BitB, and affirm that Reality is indeed as we see
- it, given certain qualifications. Readers of Jimbo's list have
- already read this.
-
-
- Solan
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