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>From: hiho@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark Peterson)
Subject: Re: jibing, dedekind cuts, and "noumenalia"
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>From article <1992Feb5.005652.8488@husc3.harvard.edu>, by zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny):
> In article <kou7j3INNaqa@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> 
> silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber) writes:
> 
>>In article <1992Feb4.163434.8471@husc3.harvard.edu> 
>>zeleny@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
> 
> BB:
>> What are your sources of knowledge besides experience and introspection?
> MZ:
>> Noumenal perception of the universals.
> ES:
>> Having dispensed with not only the reduction of thought and reference,
>>butalso with even a tangible approach to thought and reference, it would seem
>> that MZ has proved an anti-cogito and left us confined within a domain
>> populated only by refutation and soupcons.  "Noumenal perception of
>> the universals" conjures up some kind of spiritualism .

Yo --

Spiritualism barely covers it since 'noumenal' precludes 'perception'
-- except, I suppose, for intellectual intuitions.  

Right.... 

I think it would be relatively safe to assume that Mikhail was pulling
your leg a little, and/or just testing the waters to see if you've
read any Kant.


Noumenal perceptions, MZ??  ;-)


hiho
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