ontology

["Roberto Poli" <***>]

tim,
thank you for your answer. A couple of words explaining my interest for RR:
I'm a philosopher, working on ontology since ages. Some three months ago an
e-mail message posted on the Category list contained a quick reference to
Rosen, a name I never heard of before. Some bell started to ring in my head,
and I subsequently made some reseach on the web avidly read everything I was
able to find. I am now collecting all his books (mainly by interlibrary
loan) ans have start studying them carefully. I have still to read his last
book (my library ordered it, but it is still on its way). This explains why
I was not aware of his ontology-epistemology discussion.
To put things in as few words as possible, I discovered the work of a
scholar that already developed in great details some of the things that I
was slowly trying to elaborate. His analyses of the main dualities
(sintax-semantics, quantity-quality, etc) and his theory of the differences
between mechanisms and organisms give me the possibility to unify a number
of topics and ideas I have worked on during the past 15 years without being
able to integrate them appropriately. In this sense, I regard the discovery
of Rosen's work as a turning point in my intellectual career. For the time
being, the only point in which I may have been able to see a bit further
than Rosen is the idea of levels of reality. For almost all the rest his
ideas will benefit a lot from his work.
cheers, r
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