[lbo-talk] Altruism

[Miles Jackson]

On 8/10/2011 10:24 AM, Shane Mage wrote:
>
> Dropping the words "all" (many concepts are just wrong) and "spring 
> from" (many correct concepts derive from other correct concepts--that 
> is what rationality means for humans) we are left with the correct 
> concept that all correct concepts *correspond* directly or (generally) 
> indirectly to basic sensory perceptions (which is why diagrams are 
> essential to the teaching of geometry).  This is neither Nominalism 
> nor its cousin Idealism.  Its just (platonic) Realism or its cousin 
> (hegelian/marxian) "Dialectical Materialism."

It's reassuring to know that you have the meta-sensory apparatus to 
accurately determine that the "correct concepts" correspond to your 
"basic sensory perceptions".  (You recognize the unavoidable 
epistemological regress here, yes?)

Miles