TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CREATING REALITY

REALISM WITH REALIA

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HELPFUL TERMS OF REFERENCE

Scaffolding

Determinacy

Realia

Metaphysics

Abstract

Predicate

Nominalism

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SCAFFOLDING FOR UNDERSTANDINGSeveral philosophies should help you to better understand realia.

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DETERMINACYCertain. Precise.

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REALITY CAN BE.REALITY INCLUDES DETERMINACY. REALIA (THE REAL) DOES NOT.

REALIAOBJECTS FROM REAL LIFE.

Syd Mead’s concept sketch from 1980.

REALIAREAL PEOPLE.

An Asian-American Boy Scout in Up.

METAPHYSICSATTEMPT TO ANSWER TWO BASIC QUESTIONS.

What is ultimately there?

What is it like?  

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Abstract. In the form of a 6yo’s smudge stick.

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The shuttle’s attitude predicates its profile.

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NOMINALISM AS A FRAMEWORKA FRAMEWORK FOR INTERPRETING LIFE .

Nominalism says “universals or general ideas are mere names without any corresponding reality. Only particular objects exist. Properties, numbers, and sets are mere features of the way of considering the things that exist. 

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Nominalism contends “only particular objects exist” and they provide scaffolding.

NOMINALISM AS SCAFFOLDINGSUPPORTS METAPHYSICS.

Nominalism is a metaphysical framework.

General or abstract terms and predicates exist, while universals or abstract objects, which often correspond to these terms, do not exist.

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In a Nominalist World, abstract objects do not exist.

NOMINALISM AND WARPOWERS THE INHUMANITY OF WAR.

Nominalism denies the real being of universals on the ground that the use of a general word (e.g., “humanity”) does not imply the existence of a general thing named by it. The nominalist position does not necessarily deny, however, that there must be some similarity between the particular things to which the general word is applied. 

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The Spiers Speech applies nominalism to war.

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THE NOMINALIST VIEWWhat you think substantiates the Realia you encounter.

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FRAMING YOUR WORLD. YOUR REALITY.

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NOW FRAME THIS TOPIC.

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AND ANSWER THIS:

Why animate this active lecture?

Why not just produce a live action version?

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