I recently wrote an essay on the metaphysics of aesthetics, but it might also be fun to flip that around. So, consider the following...
Datum: the world, as we experience it, makes no sense.
Possible Explanations:
1) The world in itself makes no sense, and our experiences portray it accurately.
2) The world fundamentally does make sense, but our experiences are systematically misleading.
Question: to what degree can the positions of individual metaphysicians (say on presentism vs. 4-Dism about time, etc.) be explained by a merely aesthetic preference for one of the above two stances?
Well, perhaps that's more a sociological question. I guess the aesthetic question is really which explanation is the more pleasing. Opinions, anyone?
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment
Visitors: check my comments policy first.
Non-Blogger users: If the comment form isn't working for you, email me your comment and I can post it on your behalf. (If your comment is too long, first try breaking it into two parts.)
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.