No! Keep writing! I've learned something new in reading this entry... and that is what is the more formal understanding of Transcendentalism. It seemed rather indistinguishable to me at first from merely asserting that reality encompasses more than just the physical dimension. In that case, then I would have thought myself quite the transcendentalist! ;D
But if your definition of Transcendentalist view is more accurate, then this would give me new reason to re-examine it more carefully.
Have you read a little about the realism/anti-realism debate?
The way I understand transcendentalism is a kind of ground between pantheism (leaning that way, I think) and theism. I haven't really gotten into it, which is why I believe I'm perhaps in over my head. Anyone know more than I do about that?
By realism/anti-realism do you mean something similar to the materialist-supernatural debate or is that different? I haven't come across realism. But I'm interested!
Well, the realism/antirealism debate is more about epistemology (how we know what we know), especially as it deals with the sciences and mathematics.... Are our perceptions of reality truly accurate reflections of the way things are "out there" (realism), or should we proceed with the suspicion that our perceptions may only be "processed" information? Do our five empirical senses act as mere "data gatherers", or do they actively "re-interpret" reality and re-order it to suit our human need for survival and existence
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I've learned something new in reading this entry... and that is what is the more formal understanding of Transcendentalism. It seemed rather indistinguishable to me at first from merely asserting that reality encompasses more than just the physical dimension. In that case, then I would have thought myself quite the transcendentalist! ;D
But if your definition of Transcendentalist view is more accurate, then this would give me new reason to re-examine it more carefully.
Have you read a little about the realism/anti-realism debate?
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By realism/anti-realism do you mean something similar to the materialist-supernatural debate or is that different? I haven't come across realism. But I'm interested!
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