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Originally Posted by Doctordick
...Well, perhaps it is but it certainly does not begin with any assumptions. Essentially, any epistemological construct must be based on some ontological basis. I merely take that ontological basis as an unknown and examine the implied constraints on a flaw free epistemological construct.
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Well, is seems to me that the very act of seperating the ontological basis and the epistemological contructs into two distinct sets implicitly adopts an epistemological point of view that recognizes a dichotomy. Your mathematical construct then, is based on this philosophical point of view. While the mathematical construct may indeed be pristine and indisputable, the philosophical point of view which recognizes the dichotomy is not accepted by some other points of view.
Which gets me back to my original observation about the discussion being waged from different philosophical perspectives, seperated by an unbridgable paradigm shift in epistemology.
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Oh, I forgot this part:
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...They cannot do this without having some ontological basis so that epistemological construct includes the assumption of those ontological elements upon which it is based. Does that mean that “anything anyone says is an assumption?” I would certainly never put the issue that way.
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I wouldn't put that way either if I were you.
