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>From: hiho@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark Peterson)
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Subject: Re: jibing, dedekind cuts, and "noumenalia"
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>From article <1992Feb5.154626.8512@husc3.harvard.edu>, by zeleny@widder.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny):
> In article <1992Feb5.144212.7334@uwm.edu> 
> hiho@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
[...]

MZ
> You are absolutely right, Mark: I was thinking of G\"odel's assertion that
> "despite their remoteness from sense experience, we do have something like
> a perception also of the objects of set theory, as is seen from the fact
> that the axioms force themselves upon us as being true".  `Noumenal
> apprehension' is, of course, the correct term to use for designating this
> faculty; `noumenal intuition' would do for an anti-Kantian.
[...]

MZ
> In fact, I wasn't pulling anyone's leg any more than is my wont, --if you
> wish to follow Kant in rejecting the very possibility of our having a
> perception-like noumenal faculty, I certainly won't stand in your way;
> however, in this matter my sympathies lie with the views of Plato, Russell,
> and G\"odel.


Hmm.  It is possible I'm just being picky, but intuition is not the same as
apprehension, and noumena are not Platonic Forms.

hiho
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mark ce peterson   | uw-washington county  | hiho@csd4.csd.uwm.edu 
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