Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 07:07:01 -0700
Subject: another "wow"




<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/STIM/delanda2b.pdf


it's a blank page that automatically downloads a 76k pdf file 


on opening scan it seems to be a decent explanation of ontology for
dummies.


anyone know anything about delanda??


>Paul, you or others might be interested to know that

>Manuel DeLanda's _Intensive Science & Virtual

>Philosophy_ is the first volume in a new series

>published by Continuum, and edited by Keith Ansell

>Pearson, called _Transversals: New Directions in

>Philosophy_. The consultant editors include names such

>as Alliez, Caygill, Grosz, Hardt, Patton, STENGERS,

>and more..


kenneth


</color><color><param>1818,2222,CDCD</param>first paragraph:


</color><color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>A philosophy's ontology is
the set of entities it is committed to assert actually exist, or the
types of entities that according to that philosophy populate reality.
Although historically there have been a great variety of ontological
commitments we may classify them into three main groups. To begin with,
there are philosophers for whom reality has no existence independently
from the human mind that perceives it, so their ontology consists
mostly of mental entities, whether these are thought as transcendental
objects or, on the contrary, as linguistic representations or social
conventions. This ontological stance is usually referred to as
"idealism". Then there are philosophers who may grant to the objects of
everyday experience a mind-independent existence, but who remain
skeptical that theoretical entities (both unobservable relations such
as physical causes as well as unobservable entities such as electrons)
posses such mind-independence. Pragmatists, positivists  and
instrumentalists of different stripes all subscribe to one or another
version of this ontological stance. Finally, there are philosophers who
grant reality full autonomy from the human mind, disregarding the
difference between the observable and the unobservable as betraying a
deep anthropocentrism. In other words, while the previous stances deal
only with phenomena (things as they appear to the human mind) the
latter also includes nuomena (things in themselves). Philosophers
adopting this stance are said to have a realist ontology. Deleuze is
such a realist philosopher.





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