?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Divisibility%2C+Logic%2C+Radical+Empiricism%2C+and+Metaphysics&rft.creator=Winter%2C+Mr.+Blake+K.&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.subject=Metaphysics&rft.description=We+will+explore+the+problem+of+the+manner+in+which+the+world+may+be+divided+into+parts%2C+and+how+this+affects+the+application+of+logic.+We+will+also+consider+how+this+affects+the+problem+of+knowing+the+world.+Such+considerations+bring+us+to+discuss+how+the+divisibility+of+the+world+relates+to+idealism%2C+realism%2C+and+the+radical+empiricist+program+of+James.+The+epistemological+difficulties+sometimes+associated+with+realism+will+in+particular+be+shown+to+be+in+principle+the+result+of+misunderstanding+the+nature+of+the+divisibility+of+the+world.+When+such+divisibility+is+properly+understood%2C+we+claim+that+there+is+no+epistemological+dilemma%2C+at+least+in+principle%2C+although+of+course+in+practice+there+may+be+other+difficulties.+We+conclude+by+tentatively+analyzing+these+practical+difficulties.&rft.date=2009-02-06&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6351%2F1%2FDivisibility.pdf&rft.identifier=++Winter%2C+Mr.+Blake+K.++(2009)+Divisibility%2C+Logic%2C+Radical+Empiricism%2C+and+Metaphysics.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6351%2F