[FRIAM] Warring Darwinians for Glen, Steve

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

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I can't see any substantive difference in our positions.  ''So, let's just say, for the purposes of argument that I'm right, and move on."
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Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
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On 5/1/20 8:41 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> First, remember, a proper monist shouldn't talk about his "stuff",whatever it is, as if it is distinguishable from other "stuff",  because that is dualism, full stop.  So I really shouldn’t be doing this at all.

That's just nonsense. Even if there's 1 substance, it can take 2 forms. We can distinguish ice from water even though it's the same stuff.

> */[NST===> [...] But putting aside w’s warning for a moment, let me 
> just say that I don’t think we have different kinds of comprehension 
> here, but comprehensions of different types of objects.  <===nst] /*

I disagree. I think we're talking about different *ways* of organizing the ambient muck ... i.e. different comprehensions.

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