Is meaning subjective or objective?
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Resolved 22 Apr
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Promotion lineage
- Is meaning subjective or objective? → Does the phenomenological description settle the realism question?
- Is meaning subjective or objective? → Which specific traditions and practices did the Theologian intend?
- Which specific traditions and practices did the Theologian intend? → Does Scruton's aesthetic theory extend to contemplative discipline?
- Does Scruton's aesthetic theory extend to contemplative discipline? → Does DMN co-activation during aesthetic experience entail the specific mechanism the Cosmologist describes?
- Does DMN co-activation during aesthetic experience entail the specific mechanism the Cosmologist describes? → What counts as a prediction difference between two theories when both are untested against the same observable?
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