[Fis] Scientific communication (from Mark)

[John Collier]

Peirce's answer is a definite "yes", and is a form pf realism. The idea that patterns require an observer is the basis for nominalism, which was adopted by most empiricists like Locke and Hume. Plato, though, was also a nominalist, though the reasoning is not so straight-forward. The empiricist Berkeley, with his requirement of God's observation, is an objective idealism, but nominalistic nonetheless, in line with the other British Empiricists of his era.

John Collier
Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate
Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal
http://web.ncf.ca/collier

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fis [mailto:fis-bounces at listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Dai Griffiths
> Sent: Friday, 14 October 2016 4:16 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Fis] Scientific communication (from Mark)
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> To trying to answer this question, I find myself asking "Do patterns exist
> without an observer?".
> 
> A number of familiar problems then re-emerge, which blur my ability to
> distinguish between foreground and background.
> 
> Dai
> 
> On 13/10/16 11:32, Karl Javorszky wrote:
> > Do patterns contain information?
> 
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