And correlations of what? Very strong emphasis on what. Quid est?
From the get go, like all skepticism, this approach begins by sitting on a branch that more or less acknowledges reality and its comprehensibility, but quickly begins sawing off the very branch it is sitting on. Skepticism is always a form of selective denial, and as such, it is incoherent. It's like those people who argue passionately that there is no truth while in the lecture hall, but as soon as the clock strikes 4pm, they're worried about missing the bus and getting everybody in the room to the next lecture, or as Duhem would say, going home to kraut and pipe.
"Triangularity" is not a "bundle of correlations". Triangularity is an irreducible, but analyzable whole, a form that is instantiated in the world within particulars and that we encounter in particulars and abstract from those particulars to arrive at the concept. That's what a concept is: a form abstracted from concrete particulars that exists in the intellect as a universal.
Unfortunately, mechanistic metaphysics, taught and insinuated in our scientistic curricula from a young age, is a difficult intellectual habit to break for many. It is very difficult for people to uproot these obstinate presuppositions.
Is "concept" a bundle of useful correlations?
Is "bundle" a bundle of useful correlations?
Is "useful" a bundle of useful correlations?
Is "correlation" a bundle of useful correlations?
And correlations of what? Very strong emphasis on what. Quid est?
From the get go, like all skepticism, this approach begins by sitting on a branch that more or less acknowledges reality and its comprehensibility, but quickly begins sawing off the very branch it is sitting on. Skepticism is always a form of selective denial, and as such, it is incoherent. It's like those people who argue passionately that there is no truth while in the lecture hall, but as soon as the clock strikes 4pm, they're worried about missing the bus and getting everybody in the room to the next lecture, or as Duhem would say, going home to kraut and pipe.
"Triangularity" is not a "bundle of correlations". Triangularity is an irreducible, but analyzable whole, a form that is instantiated in the world within particulars and that we encounter in particulars and abstract from those particulars to arrive at the concept. That's what a concept is: a form abstracted from concrete particulars that exists in the intellect as a universal.
Unfortunately, mechanistic metaphysics, taught and insinuated in our scientistic curricula from a young age, is a difficult intellectual habit to break for many. It is very difficult for people to uproot these obstinate presuppositions.