tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post7940828466184926750..comments2024-03-27T03:32:53.817-05:00Comments on Euangelion: I See a Rock: Teaching Epistemology to StudentsMichael F. Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09713482855679578651noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post-63912132533089624452008-06-10T20:14:00.000-05:002008-06-10T20:14:00.000-05:00Very true Angie, but.. you gotta start somewhere, ...Very true Angie, but.. you gotta start somewhere, and you may as well start with what is.. is.<BR/>SteveGroseys messageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09256060632754175527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post-62255776646226623712008-06-10T09:42:00.000-05:002008-06-10T09:42:00.000-05:00Realism is about communication of reality. But, th...Realism is about communication of reality. But, the question of meaning is an issue, even if you don't delve into the "brain/mind" question. Words are undestood within cultural context, which varies from culture to culture. Language reflects the values of the culture...Realism is pragmatic. I had a professor who said to not absolutize anything but God..the question then becomes "what God, and by "means of understanding"...Realism is about reality, but reality is still a paradigm within our heads...and yes, we can find another to agree....Angie Van De Merwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12617299120618867829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post-3072708153594624262008-06-07T09:14:00.000-05:002008-06-07T09:14:00.000-05:00Sigh, these are new terms to me, but reading them,...Sigh, these are new terms to me, but reading them, I think I must certainly be a phenomenalist, until I drive myself and all my friends (usually in reverse order) crazy, and then I sink into periods of time where naive realism is a way attractive way of going about knowing. Until some other little question seeps its way into my brain, and then I'm off again running, "Well, maybe it's this, except it sort of looks like that, except that might just be semantics, and if I look at it from that culture's perspective...."<BR/><BR/>The scenario you gave on phenomenalism is so spot on with how I usually think and process and sort out and try to understand things that it made me really laugh: "There's actually a real word for that?!?" My friends call it overthinking. My therapist calls it "going all the way to the end of the road. with every road." Some people think it is a lack of self confidence. Me, ha, I'm now happy to say it's merely the phenomanalism approach to epistemology :)eclexiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14267603726576576420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post-5935804821891236152008-06-06T16:46:00.000-05:002008-06-06T16:46:00.000-05:00How about fallible realism.. I see a rock, now at ...How about fallible realism.. I see a rock, now at the moment my critical faculties inform my epistemic primitives that it is a rock, but should I ever doubt it is a rock I will examine the matter more carefully and possibly come to some other conclusion, which will effectively convert me slowly.<BR/>SteveGroseys messageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09256060632754175527noreply@blogger.com