From: HDespain-AT-aol.com
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:52:53 -0400 (EDT)
To: bhaskar-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: BHA: theorya/theoryb


Bhaskar does not necessarily conflate the realms, rather in Dialectic he
expands the three domains of RTS to D(r) >= D(a)>=D(+)>=D(s)>=D(e).  Where
D(+) is the domain of the positive, and D(s) the domain of
conceptual/empirical.

And, it does not follow that since the empirical pre-existed the subjective,
that 
D(e)>=D(s) there is emergence!


<< understand Bhaskar's "empirical" domain to consist of observables but not
 necessarily "observeds." A tree falling in the forest with no one there is
 empirical. The magnetic field in my computer monitor is actual but not
 (directly) empirical. It therefore seems the conflation below, between
 subjective and empirical, contradicts Bhaskar's own opening thrusts in RTS.
 Before there was human life on earth, was there an empirical realm? I'd say,
 "Yes." Was there a subjective realm? I'd say, "No." So how does RB equate
 empirical and subjective without doing violence to his earlier arguments of
 this sort?
  >>



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