From: "Tobin Nellhaus" <nellhaus-AT-gwi.net>
To: <bhaskar-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: Re: BHA: Re: Math and probability
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 01:18:42 +0300


Doug--

>        I don't think the mind-independence of
> relations is limited to mathematics.  I think the same thing applies to
> social life and to other ideas for similar reasons.

Yup, precisely what I was pointing toward.  One of CR's strengths, as I see
it, is its focus on relations, which it recognizes as not only in the mind.
(Same point, probably, vis-a-vis the relation of real tendencies to
probabilities.)

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Tobin Nellhaus
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"Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce



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