Re: BHA: negativity wins

[Jan Straathof <janstr@xxxxxxx>]

hi Mervyn, you wrote:

>However, perhaps you have not fully taken on board that these domains
>are said to be *overlapping* (see RTS 13, 56, esp the ticks in the
>table) ie Events and Experiences can be Mechanisms i.e. causal, and
>Experiences are also Events).

and there is a continuing expansion/unfolding of domains, and i.a. their
subsequent possibilities of overlapping; see e.g. DPF pag.11:

     "If we write dr, as a domain of the real, da as the domain of the
     actual, d+ as the domain of the positive, ds as the domain of the
     subjective, empiricism can thus be seen to rest on an illicit
     generalisation of the special case dr  da  d+  ds  de where the
     latter is identified in terms of human experience, and where human
     sense-experience is conceived as a product or function of reified
     facts, i.e. de = df."

so we have here the working-schema: dr > da > d+ > ds > de > df

then in PE on pag.204:
     "For actualism presupposes closed systems, which are a condition,
     normally socially produced and maintained, of the alignement of
     the realms of the real, the actual and the subjective, whether the
     subjective be conceptual (as in Leibniz) or empirical (as in Hume
     and Kant)."

here it is has become: dr > da > ds [= de & dc]

however in EW Bhaskar seems to return to his traditional RTS schema
"dr  da  de" [pag.25], but now develops and elaborates on notions as
"demi-real" and "demi-being" (which i read as demi-actual), thus in this
case one could imagine now the following schema:

dr [incl. dmr]  da [incl. dma, d+]  ds [= de & dc (incl. df)]

what do you think ?

yours,
Jan







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