On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Gordon Fitch wrote:
> James Heartfield:
> > ...
> > As to physics, I was not aware that it had abandoned its ambition to
> > describe an objective world outside subjective investigation - only that
> > Heisenberg had raised some difficulties in the way.
>
> That ambition seems unattainable, since the subjectivities
> investigating are themselves part of the world they are trying
> to describe. A mentation-free world is by definition
> unimaginable. It seems to me a better strategy would be to
> engage mentation, rather than to try to avoid it.
>
> -- Gordon
>
uh-oh...I sense another realist/antirealist philosophers' brawl coming on...
"it's another Berkeley-Johnson grudge match--and this time Dr. J's not just kicking stones!"
Miles