humanities.philosophy.objectivism

In article <99023b94-2acd-4c20-b896-b27a80bb4553@
2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com>, rumin8@ix.netcom.com says...
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> Here's "the thing," David...
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> "The Sun" is the output of the integration process.
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> The Sun is not the output of the integration process.
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> According to you, the second sentence is meaningless.
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> You are wrong. It is not meaningless, and it's true. It's
> an interesting but trivial note that every conceptualization
> of the Sun is distinct and so rests upon the conceptualizer.

The problem I have with this is that it suggests that everyone has some
very detailed notion of "the Sun", so that each is different. For most
people, "the Sun" means "the big bright thing in the sky that rises and
sets once a day". Further, to the extant that we aspire to be realists,
we are interested in bringing any disparate aspects of our notions of
"the Sun" into conformity.

--
Gordon