[Wittrs] Re: Following a rule / Popper
- From: "iro3isdx" <xznwrjnk-evca@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:10:56 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jrstern" <jrstern@...> wrote:
> I'm more worried about whatever form the information takes,
> whatever its acquisition logic, once it's within an agent.
I am inclined to think that not very important. What is more
important, is the availability of the information.
> Popper talks of "objective knowledge" and the "third world"
> or "world 3" of knowledge.
I would put Popper's objective knowledge in world 3.
> I'm now willing to argue that a clock does tell time, and that's
> why when you look at it, you *get* the time, because the clock
> "tells" it, in some appropriately modest and deflated manner.
That's an example. I would put time in world 3. I see it as a human
artifact.
> But isn't Gibson something of a direct realist?
J.J. Gibson was a direct realist. He married E. Gibson (his student at
the time, I think), and she studied perceptual learning. I presume that
both mostly agreed on perceptual learning and on direct perception.
> I'll go with that, as far as it goes, but it doesn't
> go far enough.
It doesn't touch the important part, such as "how does it all work."
That is, indeed, a shortcoming.
Regards,
Neil
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