File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_2003/bhaskar.0312, message 84


From: "Tobin Nellhaus" <nellhaus-AT-gis.net>
Subject: Re: BHA: Structures are not things that are true or false, even if Hegelian Marxists say so
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 07:31:46 -0500


Hi Mervyn--

You wrote:

> Is a mirage false? The thirsty traveller or other animal soon discovers
> it to be so, but it can be explained without imputing consciousness to
> the whole world.

But does a mirage exist without a mind interpreting the light incorrectly?
Isn't a "mirage" basically a cognitive intervention?

T.

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Tobin Nellhaus
nellhaus-AT-mail.com
"Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce



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