Re: Closing the antecedent

On Sun, 28 May 2006, John Jones wrote:

Realism and anti-realism, the 'external' world and 'inner' world, are
alike in that neither of these philosophies can support as necessities
the notions of order and disorder, or their related notions such as
antecedence, sequence, beginning, end, randomness, probability and
chaos. Nor can logic and mathematics provide us with any examples. Any
demonstration of these notions can be reformulated in a such way that
renders them impotent. For example, if I speak and you reply,
antecedence and sequence are eliminated as a 'communication'. Events,
any event, such as the creation of the universe, are closed or opened,
not started, begun or finished.

We are forced, if we wish to retain these concepts, to find a
framework, theory or philosophy that can support them. It would be a
mark of a greater philosophy not to do so.

No problem, surrealism is better than both realism and anti-realism.
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