As this should be a response paper that addresses an issue we?ve discussed within the time constraints of class over the last few weeks, I find it to be my need to discuss further the role of perspective within a philosophical affiliation. This is in terms of physicalism, dualism and dual-aspectism, and as a sub category of common-sense realist, solipsism and nihilism. I, myself, choose to be a dual-aspect nihilist. This, by definition, would …
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…intangible feelings? I will remind physicalists that we all swore the Earth was flat, that Newton?s Laws would always apply and the periodic table would never change. Meanwhile, Robert Frost?s ?Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening? will always exist, and always send a feeling through the person reading it. What feeling, I don?t know, but that feeling will exist. I choose to make mine a comforting, hopeful feeling. What about you?