Re: [spoon-discuss] Platonism

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 27, 2004, at 6:10 PM, Bill Adlam wrote:

> SkArcher wrote:
>
> > Perhaps the terms Platonic and Pragmatic should be enshrined in the
> > ruleset, and we can specify which is which, so that we _can_ have
> > rules
> > like the sushi (and the scarf, for that matter)
>
> I like that, but I'm not sure whether the opposite of Platonic should
> be Pragmatic, Aristotelian, Semiregular or Carnal.

I take the terminology from Don Blaheta's essay, "Pragmatism and  
Platonism: Two Approaches to Nomic". See  
<http://www.nomic.net/~nomicwiki/index.php/ 
PragmatismAndPlatonismThesis>.

Though it would be nice to have some Carnal rules...

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