Hi Luis,

>>>Why talk about ontology or epistemology at all? That ontology is a metaphysical discussion was a main point in my previous post. Further, the incompatibility of epistemology and empiricism is an explored point in many of my posts. No one ‘knows’ reality, outside of some fundamental assumption, i.e., some theory.>>Godel's Incompleteness Theorem illustrates how ZFC is either inconsistent or incomplete.>H:”Well, couldn’t you say that about *any* scientific theory as well?” L:Absolutely not. Scientific theories are *a priori* not ontological.>>H: ”How would an observation be an observation unless meaning were somehow ascribed?” L: Easily, if you can cope with the idea, ‘I cannot truly know an objective thing, beyond my subjective theories.’>I am not a solipsist. I am a realist, in my own ontological way. Yes, that’s a contradiction, but I think it’d be more self-serving than informative to spell out my circular reasoning in a forum like this one.

• Not instrumentalism? Positivism? ;) - luis_hamburgh - September 12, 2001 - 03:04 UTC
  • Are you getting annoyed? - harvey1 - September 12, 2001 - 13:15 UTC
    • Correction - harvey1 - September 12, 2001 - 21:44 UTC
    • Coherence - luis_hamburgh - September 13, 2001 - 01:56 UTC
      • I'm not following you, I must have missed a dance step - harvey1 - September 13, 2001 - 03:35 UTC
        • This old dog is learning new tricks - luis_hamburgh - September 14, 2001 - 00:57 UTC
          • Who let the dogs out? - harvey1 - September 14, 2001 - 06:27 UTC
            • Innie or outie? - luis_hamburgh - September 15, 2001 - 01:01 UTC
              • guilty of contingency in axiom selection - harvey1 - September 16, 2001 - 00:45 UTC
                • Pudding - luis_hamburgh - September 16, 2001 - 18:41 UTC
                  • slicing hairs - harvey1 - September 17, 2001 - 00:12 UTC
                    • Self-indulgence fuels pseudologic - luis_hamburgh - September 18, 2001 - 00:32 UTC
                      • Can cars run on this kind of fuel? - harvey1 - September 18, 2001 - 04:56 UTC
                        • More on ZF - harvey1 - September 18, 2001 - 12:56 UTC
                        • Incomplete vs. incomplete - luis_hamburgh - September 19, 2001 - 01:49 UTC
                        • Philosophical selections - harvey1 - September 20, 2001 - 01:28 UTC
                          • Satisfied - luis_hamburgh - September 21, 2001 - 01:09 UTC
                      • Even this - harvey1 - September 21, 2001 - 15:18 UTC
                        • Heavenly voice, but she could lose a few pounds . . . - luis_hamburgh - September 21, 2001 - 20:18 UTC
                      • More dancing - harvey1 - September 21, 2001 - 22:31 UTC
                      • More dancing - harvey1 - September 21, 2001 - 22:40 UTC