Monday, November 19, 2007

Some New Terminology

In order to help us to be concise and clear, I'm suggesting some new terminology.
To describe how something is perceived, in the MOST RAW sense, we will discuss how it phenomenologically is perceived; for example if something looks phenomenologically (now on known as "looks-p") small, it could be either a toy car or a car in the distance. Saying that something looks-p small is not claiming that the observer's perceptual experience supports the judgment that the object really is small.
To describe how something really is, in an objective sense (and don't give me crap about 'no objective reality', it's beside the point), we will discuss how it epistemologically is perceived; for example if something is-e small, then it really is small, in objective reality. Saying that something is-e small is a claim that the object is in reality small.
Hopefully this language facilitates discussion and avoids miscommunication.

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