From: Nick Tarleton (nickptar@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2008 - 15:59:09 MDT
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Lee Corbin <lcorbin@rawbw.com> wrote:
> This has always seemed to me the weak spot in Putnam's
> argument. Others too have commented that it is "unnatural"
> to force any one thing to "isomorphically" line up with
> another---it is as though the structure is being *added*
> by whatever or whoever is "finding" such a relation, i.e.,
> the isomorphism relation is not inherent in the structure
> at the outset.
What is "natural"? Why do you think your idea of "naturalness"
corresponds to the laws of metaphysics?
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