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In reply to David Potts. Hey David. That’s quite helpful, thanks. Now I need a block of time to read through what you have here carefully… LikeLiked by 1 person

In reply to mlyoung57. Hi Michael, Yes, you could say that structural realism implies that the features of the environment that we perceive are perceived in a form (namely, an intrinsic character) supplied by us. The colors and sounds as we see and hea…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I actually need to do that as well. I’m not up on the latest stuff by any means. I think quite a lot turns on how one interprets the ‘because’ in such constructions a ‘it is fitting for me to desire th…

In reply to mlyoung57. I guess I need to go back and review/re-think fitting attitudes theories of ethics. I think of “fitting attitudes” reflexively on the model provided by Aristotelian virtue ethics, but “fitting attitudes” t…

I have an extremely flat-footed observation about the initial characterization of what structural realism is: on the face of it, structural features of the world are intrinsic features of the world (or features that are part of how those parts of the w…

According to my suggested analysis of O[that P] – see my immediately previous post, “Person-Directed Anger…” – it is appropriate for one to have negative, person-directed attitudes toward a person (i) failing to have positive attitudes toward that-P obtaining (or failing to have negative attitudes toward P not obtaining). But it makes sense that, because…