Who has Doomed Philosophy to the Quagmire of SIS?
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Anthony Crifasi wrote:
>Joseph Polanik wrote:
>>in the thread concerning Hume’s brain you indicated that you could not
>>explain how the I-2 could be self-instantiating. unless you now have
>>such an explanation, how do you avoid the conclusion that there are
>>any others at all?
>because the very notion of causal instantiation is exactly like the
>notion of matter - we either have no positive concept of it at all, or
>the concept is completely phenomenal. Just as no one has ever
>experienced matter, but only phenomenal qualities that are attributed
>to matter, no one has ever experienced causality (including
>instantiation), but only one phenomenon following another, in which
>case the antecedent phenomenon is assumed to have “instantiated” the
>subsequent one. So appealing to “instantiation” brings you no closer to
>any metaphenomenal reality than before.
you have undertaken to show that I have doomed philosophy to the
quagmire of SIS merely by asking ‘what am I?’; but, if you deny that
there is at least one metaphenomenal reality, you have yourself created
the quagmire into which you are sinking. you can’t blame that on me.
Joe
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