Re: virus: coherence and correspondence

Robin Faichney (robin@faichney.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 13 May 1999 09:40:06 +0100

In message <3.0.2.32.19990513002336.007b0a00@pop.dial.pipex.com>, Dave Pape <davepape@dial.pipex.com> writes
>
>Once you realise that you never see reality, the correspondence theory
>BECOMES the the consistency theory, because Reality becomes ideas, becomes
>symbols, so an idea which "corresponds to reality" is just an idea that
>coheres with your perceptions. Which are still nothing more than symbols.

That's quite a good account of philosophical idealism, Dave. Do you really believe there's nothing "out there"? :-)

-- 
Robin