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To: f.Christian
I do not think...

Well, you won't get any argument from me.

(But I do not believe you.)

Hank

206 posted on 02/02/2003 4:21:10 PM PST by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief
Here's the problem. In materialist philosophy a true thought (some discrete object in the brain) is said to correspond with a discrete external object. But how can one know that a discrete object in the brain corresponds to a discrete external object? In materialist philosophy there exists no means for bridging the gap between the knower and the thing known.

In Aristotle's realist philosophy, a true thought is determined necessarily by the adequation of mind and the form of a thing. There is no gap between knower and thing known.

212 posted on 02/03/2003 4:56:11 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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