Knowledge, Reality, and Value: Huemer’s Response, Part 5

Thanks to everyone, again, for the excellent discussion. Some selected replies to “Book Club, Part 5”:

Bryan’s Comments(1) Abstract Principles vs. Concrete Judgments

In earlier work, I said philosophers have often mistakenly started from general, abstract principles and deduced implausible conclusions about particular cases, when they should instead have started from the apparent facts about particular cases and generalized from there.

Bryan thinks that I just made the mistake that I’ve critici...