Letter to a 20 or 21 Century Philosopher PHI/105 September 23, 2012 Letter to a 20 or 21 Century Philosopher I’m scripting this letter to John Dewey concerning his concept of pragmatism. I’m selecting this concept as a result of it pursuits me within the scientific side of your pondering. I do know that you simply selected to problem logicians to reply the Question Assignment of fact. That is a laborious factor to type out and make actual and true. Going up in opposition to a few of the occasions most sensible thinkers and difficult them to give you true solutions was certainly one of your robust factors.
I do know that you weren’t completely opposed to fashionable logic as you will have acknowledged “logic primarily based upon the concept that qualitative objects are existential within the fullest sense. To retain logical ideas primarily based on this conception together with the acceptance of theories of existence and data primarily based on an reverse conception is just not, to say the least, conductive to clearness – a consideration that has a whole lot to do with present dualism between conventional and the newer relational logics. ”(Qualitative Thought 1930) This assertion to me implies that you had possibly exhausted the normal mind-set that you simply had imagined.
I consider that you simply had to attain for extra solutions and other ways to get these solutions. Reality is a laborious factor to come by and it isn’t simply obtained. I do know that you simply had been a thinker of science and that you simply used this to attempt to perceive the world. From you analysis you didn’t stretch the reality however relatively examined all the components that might be defined by science. In figuring these items out you had been ready to decide if the phenomena that you simply had been analyzing on the time had been truly true or not.
I discover this attention-grabbing as a result of there are lots of issues on this world which can be laborious to clarify. I’m certain that there have been many questions left unanswered for you as a result of the analysis know-how was simply not there for you on the time you had been doing all of your analysis on completely different phenomena’s. The scientific methodology that you simply selected to comply with could be a base for all the scientists that adopted your analysis and I discover it superb that you’re nonetheless identified to today. I can see now by researching your historical past why you didn’t consider in faith. I might have to say that is ecause it’s one thing that would not be confirmed. The phenomena that a being may exists and create all the things is simply too unattainable to conceive. It’s unattainable to decide by science even to today if somebody similar to this did or may ever exist. There is no such thing as a scientific methodology that may show the reality of this and that is why you didn’t consider it was doable. I might have to additionally agree with this level and if there have been a means to analysis it scientifically and show that such a being or particular person did exist I might consider that to be the reality.
With no fact about sure issues it’s laborious to put any form of religion in them. The extra I take into consideration these items the extra I consider the scientific methodology one of the simplest ways for me to go about life and take into consideration issues. I consider that the opposite two faculties are simply pretty much as good as yours. I simply lean a little extra in direction of science then math or metaphysics. These different two faculties are crucial as properly for the understanding of just about all issues which can be explainable. There is no such thing as a one faculty that’s higher than the others and I might have to relate to all three of them.
As for the issues which can be simply phenomena I might have to agree with you in analyzing the details and truths that we’re ready to show and consider in relatively than simply making issues up and believing in false truths. John Dewey you might be really somebody to lookup to and I’ve present in your readings some fact to this life that we lead. Many issues go unanswered however in time many issues that had been unanswerable will get discovered and the reality shall be revealed. References READING: Ch. 9 of Philosophy: The Energy Of Concepts. READING: Ch. eight of Philosophy: The Energy Of Concepts. http://www. infed. org/thinkers/et-dewey. htm
