Re: Operational Closure

[Arno Goudsmit <***>]

Howard, 
this makes me think of William James' works (1904: A world of pure experience; 1912: 
Essays in radical empiricism) on radical experience. His favorite example was the 
conjunction between two elements (say: two propositions) being as meaningful, and 
therefore as real, as the conjugated elements.

Best,
Arno Goudsmit 


Howard wrote:
> 
> Tim,
> 
> I?m not sure where or if we disagree. Let?s leave Plato 
> out of it, since we may disagree on how he thought.
> 
> What do you think Rosen means by ?material reality? if it 
> is not, as you say, what we impute back to the natural 
> system from our models? Rosen says that organization (or 
> form or relation) is as much or more a part of reality as 
> particles.