The Internet, Epistemology and Ontology
Dave Boersema,
Journal of Education, Community, Values,
Sept 23, 2002
Information on the internet is not physical. But it is not merely virtual, either. The email message, "Dinner is at eight. Don't be late," connotes a real state of affairs, not a merely imaginary realm. "It seems to be a third basic ontological kind," asserts the author. If you can hack through the dense jargon in this article (normal people don't use the word "axiological" when they mean "ethical") you are rewarded with a sense that some underlying philosophical assumptions about the nature of existence, reality and morality are being rewritten by this half-way state of existence.
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