French philosopher Henri Bergson is also known for his interest in the virtual and the actual. His definitions are, however, slightly different and more specific than the dictionary definitions discussed by Charles Sanders Peirce and how John Duns Scotus defines them. Bergson uses the terms virtual and actual in ‘Matter and Memory’ in relation to […]
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Charles Sanders Peirce is not the first to provide definitions for the virtual and the actual. In fact, he (763-764) credits John Duns Scotus, A Franciscan philosopher and theologian, as having defined virtual knowledge and virtual difference in ‘Ordinatio’ or ‘Opus oxoniense’. Duns Scotus does indeed provide definitions for the virtual and the actual, in […]
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Theory: The Virtual and the Actual
The name of the blog is ‘The Virtual and the Actual’ and posts are, broadly speaking, about ‘All things on Virtual Reality’. To make sense of that choice, to call it just that, it is important to understand what I mean by virtual and actual. This post focuses on these two terms. There are many […]