I think your take is correct. To say that human culture is a separate domain from nature is like saying the social structures of insects are a separate domain from nature. Which I guess you could do, if you really wanted, but you probably shouldn't!
What might work is... the domain mathematical objects? If you are prepared to grant to mathematics some objective existence, then you could say that it exists in a domain that really separate from, yet somehow related to, nature. And when we do math, or maybe generally do theorizing of some suitably rigorous sort, you might say we are trying to move our existence into that mathematical domain.
very interesting! re. math, you could be right, though I imagine the pragmatists would still want to resist putting math onto a different plane, but that is a different story
I have a terrible and ominous foreboding that I will turn out to be a (mathematical) Platonist, and the only way to avoid this fate is to read absolutely nothing more on the topic.
I think your take is correct. To say that human culture is a separate domain from nature is like saying the social structures of insects are a separate domain from nature. Which I guess you could do, if you really wanted, but you probably shouldn't!
What might work is... the domain mathematical objects? If you are prepared to grant to mathematics some objective existence, then you could say that it exists in a domain that really separate from, yet somehow related to, nature. And when we do math, or maybe generally do theorizing of some suitably rigorous sort, you might say we are trying to move our existence into that mathematical domain.
very interesting! re. math, you could be right, though I imagine the pragmatists would still want to resist putting math onto a different plane, but that is a different story
I have a terrible and ominous foreboding that I will turn out to be a (mathematical) Platonist, and the only way to avoid this fate is to read absolutely nothing more on the topic.
lol