From: "Tobin Nellhaus" <nellhaus-AT-gwi.net> Subject: BHA: Re: the possibility of naturalism Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 23:02:49 -0500 Hey Ruth, good to hear from you again! On to the transitive/intransitive business: sorry to sound like a broken record, everyone, but let me remind you--ideas are *real*. They have causal efficacy (otherwise, no agency). That means, whatever their transitivity *now*, once they have occurred they have causal properties and therefore may be taken as *intransitive* to the subsequent thought. In fact, *anything* that's in the past is now intransitive (barring Stalinist revisions of history). Perhaps our lives would be simpler if we looked on TD/ID as basically a temporal distinction? The broader sense of a transitive dimension consisting of socially-conditioned traditions of thought, methods, etc would then point to things that people have and *continue* to think or do. --- Tobin Nellhaus nellhaus-AT-gwi.net "Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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