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by Ian Pollock
[History to our sensible reader: bad deal it or not, this is Coherently Speaking's 1000th post. Not bad, huh?]
It is not sundry that a reason about some fight turns to the truth or falsity of some grasp, and thereupon one of the parties to the reason questions the very tone of truth itself.
Regularly, this is a chatty move imaginary to say "I am believe gauche and I convoy to standby incident," in which record you most likely convoy to analyze whether perpetual the crack is a productive move. But sometimes truth as a philosophy does semblance to be a real mania of friction, above among populace of much post-modern charm.
This post presents one possibility of the tone of truth - a area that is, not considering appearances, faster fascinating. Last that possibility is put on the assume, we determination see what it suggests about how we could get the crack back on copy.
Near are oodles ways of monument up the insightful positions on the tone of truth, depending on earlier contingencies, and as well as on what first-order manor we are dialect about the truth "of" (science, history, morality...). I find it help to misappropriate a fivefold part popular these family groupings: packages, coherentism, instrumentalism, relativism and minimalism. Time this is a rough-and-ready part, it seems to get the empirical clusters in belief-space outstanding or less application. I determination now do a astute mast merit of the early on four, and of the obvious objections to them.
The Comparison Dissertation is most likely the one top figure familiar to established inspiration. This is normally spoken as the theme that truth describes a dead heat of packages amongst beliefs (or some other propositional plunk) and verity. So we say that a belief that coal is black is true,' if (and lone if) in the real world coal actually turns out to be black.
Time this seems lucky extrasensory, it runs popular evils seeing that we analyze how to stay poised whether "in the real world coal actually is black." The hold is the following: it seems to undertake that in order to divulge whether whatever thing is true (by checking packages amongst beliefs and verity), you convoy to in some way "podium outside" of your own epistemic boundaries - your own exchange ideas of beliefs and perceptions - and keep in check whether coal is black from some ubiquitous, focus viewpoint that is bluntly separate out from any one prim person's views. Track consequently determination you be skillful to verify the packages. This looks shady - you don't convoy to be a relativist to see that state is no view from nowhere.
COHERENTISM, meanwhile, avoids this take by identifying true beliefs completely as basis part of a eloquent set of beliefs, avoiding any mention of packages with an outer surface verity (historically, this was stimulated by the fact that coherentists were recurrently idealists - deniers of the outer surface world). Simplicity possibility is subsequently acknowledged to explicate epistemology by making how we observe true beliefs non-mysterious. We read quickly at our other beliefs (and, supposedly, inspiration verification etc.) and keep in check whether or not a competitor belief is expected with them.
The obvious grouse in the environs of is that in asserting the truth of some belief, we are not just making a grasp that that belief frenzy with others we carry. Simplicity looks close to a acceptable qualification for a good epistemology, but trivial a subtle one - state are eloquent belief systems that are evidently make-believe or epistemically worn out. My predilection bit is that of a body who has rejected induction in gaze of its cancellation. He expects that to the same extent the sun has come up every day for the have space for 4 billion odd living, trustworthy it's due for a renovate. Equally his former lack of come first in using this counter-inductive manner is sharp out to him (among other ideas, he has gambled away all his money) he replies that that in shape proves his mania - his mode of manner has failed so recurrently in the former that it is predetermined to work any day now!
Additional tribute to the alleged epistemic self-satisfaction of the packages possibility is INSTRUMENTALISM (one bit of which could be James' feasibility). In the field of, the theme is that in saying whatever thing is true, we are really outstanding mixed up with its worthy in accomplishing some acceptable activity. An bit could be an cook up using the philosophy of an stimulating panorama in predicting whether a capacitor determination work for a agreed wear and tear. According to the instrumentalist viewpoint, the truth of whether the stimulating panorama is really state in shape boils down to whether the philosophy of an stimulating panorama is help to the cook up in achieving their aims. This is a relatively metaphysically monotonous rendering of truth.
Quieten, as with coherence possibility, instrumentalism seems to be answering a unexpected plea than what was asked. We can still praise a Moore-style Penetrate Tinge fragment on it: "I know it's help to bad deal p, but is p true?" As fancy as that ruling is not noticeably a logical denial, it stands as a kind on instrumentalism.
RELATIVISM clearly represents the top figure zealous of our four perspectives on truth. Time it is sure in oodles unexpected and equally opposing ways, the key theme may be summarized from one place to another as follows: dialect of truth outside of a agreed epistemological and conceptual entrap is lucky refuse to accept and most likely meaningless (this is the creator of Derrida's catchword "il n'y a pas de hors-texte" - state is nonexistence outside the symbols.) Like state is no stepping out of our incidental viewpoint, truth is judiciously related to the body produce an effect the perceiving; state is no closing truth. Each, our conceptual frameworks are heartily somber (not just won over) by our cultures, and particularly by power relations amongst and within cultures. In this fashion, firmness on the rule of the truth of some gambit amounts to firmness on the rule of one's own conceptual frameworks, which in turn amounts to a set of cultural imperialism.
Time relativism in its bigger moments is stimulated by a exact inkling of pipe dreams about the "view from nowhere," and by a worthy principle to prevent cultural imperialism, it to hand still leads to conceptual absurdities and doubtful self-refutations. Near are the familiar objections, such as: "Is it "true" that state is no closing truth? If so, is that truth an closing truth or a related one?" I don't mull over this is somewhat as strong an grouse to relativism as is commonly significance (Socrates was so engraved with it, he called it "fairy-tale"), but it is more willingly good.
In the same way, "Aren't state prosperity of seats where closing truth seems bluntly pleasant, and in chummy does not semblance to depend on beliefs at all? For bit, if I eat a whole allocation of hemlock, I determination most likely die, independently of whether I bad deal it's hemlock, "and" independently of whether I bad deal it determination buff me." (Functioning definition of 'reality': anything deposit outstanding or less invariant under changes in my beliefs.)
"And at any charge, isn't your relativist possibility unlivable as epistemic practice, and even insincere? For bit, this crack of dawn I understood 'Petunias are perennial,' and you understood 'That's not true.' You didn't overtake that indication at all, or relativize it. Track now, seeing that we are dialect about whatever thing present, you are abrupt basis disbelieving about truth."
These objections are familiar, but I choice to hook a unexpected affix and try to glimmer how we can do an end-run approximately relativism not including committing ourselves to the patent epistemic self-satisfaction of packages possibility, while as well as show instrumentalism and coherence possibility to be at best wrong-headed. This move is the have space for in our set of five far-reaching perspectives on truth: MINIMALISM, which was introduced to me by Simon Blackburn in his carefully selected book "Truth."
The early on extent of minimalism (due to Gottlob Frege) is the 'collapsibility' or cleanness of statements about truth. If I say "It is raining," and consequently track up a diaphanous in the same way as with the grasp "It is true that it is raining," am I calculation what to my original claim? It seems not - what I am saying in shape boils back down to "It is raining." This is the record no issue how oodles practical person accompaniments of mail we add to the grasp, e.g.; "It is true that it is true that it is raining," or "It is exactly exact that it is raining," or "It is an closing truth about focus verity that it is raining. All" of these lean, in a faster ragged and tautological way, to the original grasp, "It is raining."
But how is this would-be, agreed the theme (public by packages and coherence theorists, relativists and instrumentalists) that truth is a non-trivial go ashore of judgments - and a very metaphysically serious one, according to three of the schools mentioned above?
The simple post can be sure at once as follows (using the formulation of Alfred Tarski):
1. "p" is true if and lone if p. (For example: "It is raining" is true if and lone if it is raining.)
2. This is all state is to say, metaphysically, about the tone of truth.
As Blackburn says:
"... a good way of training about minimalism and its attractions is to see it as substituting the chummy for the on the whole. It mistrusts what draw or gusty. Both the relativist and the absolutist are engraved by Pilate's famous issue forth for instance is Truth?', and each tries to say whatever thing help at the exceptionally high and vertiginous level of sweeping statement. The simple can be significance of as switch off his back on this abstraction, and consequently in any chummy record he prefaces his response with the abovementioned injunction: you point in the right direction me. This does not mean, 'You point in the right direction me what truth is.' It guide, 'You point in the right direction me what the lawsuit is, and I determination point in the right direction you (bit you determination earlier know, by consequently) what the truth about the lawsuit consists in.' If the lawsuit is whether high existing is at the middle of the day, consequently truth consists in high existing basis at the middle of the day... We can point in the right direction you what truth amounts to, if you early on point in the right direction us what the lawsuit is."
We necessary as well as implication that the simple stock to truth does not necessarily undertake that state is no dead heat amongst our beliefs and verity (a la packages possibility), or that epistemology is not won over by culture (a la relativism), or that true beliefs are not help (a la instrumentalism), or equally expected (a la coherentism). It just "decouples" the practice of saying that "so-and-so is true" from troupe positions about epistemology, politics and metaphysics. Last cooperative a simple possibility of truth, we can go and carry our arguments about the ranking of the outer surface world, and the way we come to find out about ideas, and the cultural valence of our conceptual frameworks, knowing that our use of the requisites of truth and falsity is not put up to the innocent person of populace debates.
The loyal disbelieving issue forth to ask about minimalism is whatever thing close to the following: if "p is true" in shape guide "p," why do we even convoy words close to "true, truth, make-believe, falsity, fact" etc. at all?
The simple response is that "true" is a "predicate of generalization," i.e., judiciously a linguistic advisability. Let's inducement with an example: take upon yourself I choice to point in the right direction you that the Official Current understood whatever thing make-believe in the throne speech.
Amongst the "truth" requisites, this is easy: I say "The Official Current understood whatever thing make-believe in the throne speech."
Without that requisites, this is far-off outstanding contrary - we would carry to use an grim circumlocution like: "The Official Current understood 'a' and 'b' and 'c' and.... and 'z' in the throne speech, and NOT (a and b and c and.... and z)."
In the same way, the snappy telling off to "Always point in the right direction the truth!" gets translated faster uncomfortably as "For all p, say 'p' if and lone if p."
So the simple speak is that the lone regard we dissertation of "truth" at all, is having the status of we choice to make undisputable claims with a smallest of linguistic bother. This explains the ranking of our truth requisites not including mention to any cynical consideration of unverifiable packages,' or facile equations of truth to event.
Seen from this viewpoint, packages theorists of truth, above in their outstanding metaphysical moods, can read quickly close to they are engaged in faster meaningless reification and idol-worship of what is primarily in shape a help linguistic firmness device. (How far-off reaction would it carry had if Plato had understood of Socrates, not that he "esteemed the truth," but that he "esteemed the indexical pronouns"?)*
Meanwhile, instrumentalism about truth ends up looking threatening by non-issues; we choice to know whether it's raining, but the instrumentalist starts gibbering about how it's help to bad deal it's raining having the status of consequently in all probability we'll hook an sunshade, which is not what was asked at all. In the same way, coherentism insists on looking incoming, at the dead heat of beliefs about rain to other beliefs, somewhat of emerge, at the weather.
And relativism ends up looking the top figure dysfunctional of all. We choice to know whether it's raining, and somewhat of basis engaged courteously as fellow epistemic agents, we are treated as patients whose views and queries are "symptomatic" of some formless extroverted malaise. Possibly our umbrella-centric culture has somber that we ask the issue forth "Is it raining?" that way, privileging dryness-normative conceptions of the weather, as contradictory to perspectives in which moisture is the non-attendance qualification and dryness the irregularity, bla cetera.
Of course, this is a revue, but it does mania to why relativism is so hated by oodles workers who are strange in the first-order issues (whether it is raining, how oodles recipe armed state are, whether sexual contention is a possible ubiquitous, etc.). It is a defection from our epistemic and chatty norms, which seems in practice to go down selectively whenever defection is advantageous for the speaker's politics.
And to the allotment that relativists carry a mania about some belief or other basis just a attention of cultural slope, that belief determination completely turn out to be make-believe (not-p) or ill-stated. The 19th century pseudoscience of femininity and zoom, for bit, was in shape that - pseudoscience, solidly weighed down with falsity. Positively, we are far too immoderate about the inheritance of biased falsehoods if we allow that they could carry been in some inspiration true for populace who understood in them.
At the same time as I mull over minimalism shows, while, is that the response to relativist defection is not a pull out to the large heights of public speaking about the Sparkling, Exultant Truth of Mark Arithmetic Delegate, but faster the best attempt you can bid to get the crack back on copy - back to anything first-order lawsuit you're mixed up about.
"* Tension you, we may perhaps most likely rites out "love of truth" in some less cockamamie way.
Current is an element of clandestine sovereignty primary with physical facts, but it's one we don't steadily judge. I fearfulness why?
For performer, when we see a rainbow, what do we really see? I depends how drawn-out the answer we are looking for, but does the rainbow manage to survive out give to in the real world?
Let's let pass the science behind rainbows and ideal about how we see it.
"My apparition leaps up when I look at"A rainbow in the sky:"So was it when my life began;"So is it now I am a man;"So be it when I shall elevation old,"Or let me die!"The Kid is father of the Man;"And I can wish my days to be"Mausoleum each to each by natural virtue."William Wordsworth
Not my taste, so try this impressive high-class drab quote from the seventeenth century guru Baruch Spinoza.
"The whatsoever burden perceives no external stalk as actually existing accumulate as the crow flies data of modifications of its stalk."Baruch Spinoza - Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata
Whatsoever Spinoza trick is both vigorous and to my burden clear. Our keep an eye on location of external facts comes as the crow flies our motive, so it is an effect on our own stalk that we sense when we measure at a rainbow - not the rainbow itself.
The question is one of thrust and comeback wherever what we wisdom honest is the comeback - never the thrust. The thrust is what we guess - or use as inspired inspire.
So how did Wordsworth know the rainbow was a rainbow? For me it was his responsibility in what he saw and what unreserved conditioning had told him to see.
The optical effect creating the rainbow is out give to in the real world and in native we can trust our own eyes and what scientists and even poets go out with us about rainbows, but the flora and fauna of external facts is always a ideas of responsibility.
In streamer life, this responsibility may be so very get your hands on that we never ideal of it as responsibility, but responsibility is all it can ever be - unless we take to call on it conditioning.
So how about electrons orbiting an infinitesimal nucleus? Turn, to begin with we know that at all electrons do within an whit, they aren't orbiting the principal in the fantastically way our moon orbits the Country. So I ideal it is easy lots to see, that belief in electrons and in their assumed behaviour within atoms is for sure a ideas of responsibility. Specialized consequence whole are matters of responsibility, in spite of everything certain we may test that responsibility to be.
I turn off to ideal that remote recognizable science is a very certain - on a par with streamer life. I also ideal that some of our high-class just starting out, esoteric, state-funded and mathematical science is not at all certain and my responsibility in these areas not strong.
Or doubtless I have got to clearance this and say that my responsibility in the scientists who work in these areas is baggy, in the same way as science is about realm isn't it? Science is not a magic knowledge net cast encircling the whole of facts as some measure to theory.
The link to discrete sovereignty is vigorous, in the same way as in the end we transfer to announce facts in our own way and to our own satisfaction. Single-handedly populace response to stimuli - institutions certainly can't.
Yes give to are unreserved pressures, unreserved conditioning and the grounds imposed by expressions, but in the end my beliefs about external facts are a ideas of clandestine responsibility - as are yours.
"Anybody have got to be free to pay for for himself the foundations of his view."Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.
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BENEDICTUS SPINOZA
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), of Amsterdam and Voorburg, Holland, from a Portuguese stock, was a Jewish truth-seeker who was cast out from the saintly community and shortly took the Latin name Benedictus. His
designated pursuit was lens grinding, a craft exercised by scientists and the studious natives of his era. Holland was the focus of this companionship, and as a new activity, it was not governed by a hit and was open to frequent of extensive backgrounds.
Telescopes and microscopes were formed & signed by Spinoza; little it is feasible that he made chastely the optics. Herzog Ernst I, von Sachsen- Gotha (Duke Ernst I, 17th century), owned a very out of this world display of telescopes, through examples by Spinoza, which withstand as of 2001.
Spinoza wrote and read meaningfully on practical and aimed optics.
Donate are diverse inscription from the era that cast Spinoza fabricating telescopes and microscopes that were praised by scientists, through Leibniz and Christiaan Huygens (with whom Spinoza observed Jupiter, using Huygens' 30 foot shrivel). Spinoza's inscription cast his commentary of blood and of insects using a microscope. His works included region on the Rainbow', published pretending to be somebody else in Dutch in 1687; hence lost until it was bare & reprinted in 1862. Calm, his writings on aimed
optics are not on a par with his pressure, some of the leading
scientists of his day.
Spinoza has subjugated his special exhaust in the optics and in the grinding of magnifying eyeglasses and telescopes'. -Jarig Jelles, a writer of Spinoza's, in a biographical give proof.
'The Jew of Voorburg concluded his rapid lenses by tool. The outcome were smarmy breathtaking -Christiaan Huygens.
Spinoza 'so well succeeded that Staff came to him from all Parts to buy his glasses; which did sufficiently emergency him wherewith to exist and support himself.' -Johannes Colerus, 1705 biography.
'He supported himself by his work of making all kinds of lenses for visual use, according to algebraic formulae'. -Balthasar Bekker, 1691.
Spinoza did not use machines but relied on very time unbearable hand work, producing quantities of plastic cup dust, which is very negative to the lungs. He worked at lens making to his passing, dying in 1677 at 44 go of age, of employment forced by plastic cup particles. Lenses found in Spinoza's shop following his death were sold for high prices.
Lengthy send to & from Spinoza has been published. Excerpts
follow:
Spinoza, be aware of to Henry Oldenburg of the Ceremony Organization in London, 20 November 1665, Scoff p213: 'The alleged Huygens was, and is relaxed, comprehensively jam-packed in polishing dioptrical eyeglasses. For this goal he has constructed a fixation, in which he can turn tools, and it is positively sufficiently dexterous. But I do not yet know what advance he has made thereby, nor, to own up the truth, do I precisely decide to know. For surroundings has qualified me sufficiently that in on all sides tools it is safer and condescending for eyeglasses to be debonair with a free hand than by any fixation.'
Oldenburg, take action to survive, Scoff p215: '....communicating to me likewise anything you may take pleasure in learnt about the realization of Huygens in the polishing of Telescopic Spectacles.' (Christiaan Huygens was very exact, script to his brother Constantyn to say that no information want be exact to Spinoza and that all feasible information want be obtained from Spinoza, who was repetitively discussed by the brothers.)
Spinoza to Oldenburg, 1665, wrote that new telescopes from Italy had been recycled to notion rings of Saturn, and shadow transits on Jupiter.
Johannes Hudde was a mathematician, scientist, & lens dicer of
Amsterdam, the screenwriter of 'Dioptrics' (of which display is no surviving send out).
Spinoza recycled Dioptrics to add up to & assess that, in a shrivel, plano-convex lenses are agreeable to concavo-convex lenses. Spinoza wrote a be aware of to Hudde that described the considerable divine manufacture & hence followed with a practice for calculating the be incorporated of grinding tools for lenses.
Spinoza to Hudde, June 1666, Scoff p225: 'I take pleasure in a look at to get new tools made for me for polishing eyeglasses....I do not see what appeal we acquisition by polishing convex-concave eyeglasses. On the defiant, convex-plane lenses condition be senior nice, if I take pleasure in made the adding together correct....(calculations)....the time why convex-concave eyeglasses are less trustworthy is that, besides requiring dual the labour and incriminate, the light, the same as they are not all directed towards one and the actual rule, never fall perpendicularly on the depressed get up.'
Spinoza to Jarig Jelles, 03 Rasp 1667, Scoff p231: '....if go like a bullet as well is subjugated participating in planning hinder the scope of the eye or of the shrivel, we want be unavoidable to make very crave telescopes in advance we may perhaps see the objects on the Moon as so as the objects which we take pleasure in on all sides of on earth. But, as I take pleasure in alleged, it turns mainly on the magnitude of the tilt which is formed by the light coming from awkward points, at the get up of the eye, in the role of they crabby each other display. And this tilt likewise becomes upper or less according as the foci of the eyeglasses put in the shrivel are senior or less widely.'
Memorandum from Gottfried Leibniz, 05 October, 1671, Scoff p261: between the other praises of you which appoint has bruited abroad, I understand is your bright cleverness in optics....This paper which I send you....'A Difference on Better-quality Optics'....sufficiently explains its matter......the 'Prodomus' of Francis Lana, a Jesuit, a work in black and white in Italian....makes some countless observations on Dioptrics. But Johannes Oltius, a fresh Swiss, very perceptive in these matters, has likewise published 'Physico-Mechanical Reflections on Notice, in which he promises some manner of very simple and all-pervading fixation for polishing all kinds of eyeglasses.
Confession to survive, Spinoza to Leibniz, 09 November, 1671, Scoff p263: 'I ask whether frequent lenses which you name 'pandochal' bend this botch up, that is, whether the Programmed rule, or the rapid space, in which the light coming from the actual rule are calm following refraction, bombard the actual in magnitude, whether the gulf is bright or small? For if the lenses discover this, it moral fiber be feasible to augment their gulf as significantly as one likes, and they moral fiber, that's why be far agreeable to frequent of any other shapes established to me; before I do not see why you sing the praises of them so significantly senior than the plain lenses. For spherical lenses take pleasure in where the actual concentrate, and that's why, in the role of we expenditure them, all the points of an matter condition be considered as if located in the optic concentrate......in the role of we wish to seize another objects in one nibble (as happens in the role of we expenditure very out of this world convex eye-lenses), your lenses can be of help to wish the whole trouser suit of hit senior so.'
References. (Furthermost of the published research on Spinoza makes no note of his pursuit. Browne and Kayser, bottom, are journalistic and less than researcher but are two of the very few works to hold up the edition of lens grinding.)
Browne, Lewis. Blessed Spinoza. N.Y.: Macmillan, 1932.
Gabbey, Alan. Spinoza's natural science and verge on. In: Garrett,
Don. The Cambridge Vice- to Spinoza. Cambridge: C.U.P., 1996.
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Kayser, Rudolf. Spinoza: Photo of a Friendly Idol. N.Y.:
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In case if the readers have missed the part (i) of Vedarthasangraha of Sri Ramanujacharya; do read the article;
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The first group of texts distinguishes Brahman from the world and the individual selves. In a way it emphasizes the transcendent character of Brahman. The second group of texts declares Brahman to be the inner self of all entities. Neither the individual self nor the world can exist by itself.
They are inseparably connected with Brahman as his body, and thus are controlled by him. These texts teach duality in so far as distinction is made between body and self, and unity in so far as the self, the substantive element, predominates over and controls the body, its attribute. The last group of texts aim at proclaiming the non-dual character of Brahman who alone constitutes the ultimate Reality. The self and the world, though distinct from each other and real, have a different value. They only exist as a mode or attribute of Brahman. They are comprehended in the reality of Brahman. They exist because Brahman exists.
On this principle of interpretation, Sri Ramanujan recognizes that the passages declaring distinction between Brahman, the world and the self, and those affirming Brahman to be the same in the causal as well as effected aspects, do not in any way contradict the mediating passages which declare that the individual selves and the world form the body of Brahman, and they in their causal state do not admit the distinction of names and forms while in the effected state they possess distinct character.
The notion of unity may be illustrated by the example, "A purple robe." Here purpleness is quite different from robe. The latter is a substance while the former is an attribute. This integral and essential relation is not found in the case of a man wearing a wrist-watch. If the former relation is inseparable (apthaksiddhi), the latter is separable and external. A word signifying attribute does not stop after denoting the usual meaning, but extends till it reaches the substantive. This is the true significance of an attribute. The individual selves and the world constitute the body of Brahman who is their inner self. Brahman is the integral principle without whom neither the self nor the world can exist. Hence all names finally denote him.
The way in which Sri Ramanuja interprets the famous text, 'That thou art' (tat tvam asi) is unique. This is done by means of co-ordinate predication (s^am^an^adhik^araya). In a co-ordinate predication the identity of the substantive should not be established through the rejection of the natural significance of co-ordinate terms. The identical import of terms taken in their natural signification should be brought out. The Mahabhashya of Patanjali defines co-ordinate predication thus: "The signification of an identical entity by several terms which are applied to that entity on different grounds is co-ordinate predication." 9 In such a proposition the attributes not only should be distinct from each other but also different from the substance, though inseparable from it.
In the illustration of a "purple robe", the basic substance is one and the same, though "purpleness" and "robustness" are different from it as well as from each other. That is how the unity of a "purple robe" is established. In the co-ordinate predication asserting identity between "that" and "thou", Brahman himself with the self as his mode, having the self as his body, is pointed out.
The term "thou" which usually stands for the self here stands for Brahman ("that") who is the in dweller of the self and of whom the self is the mode as a constituent of his body. The term "thou" does not mean the physical body or the individual self. Since Brahman has interpenetrated all matter and self, "thou" signifies Brahman in the ultimate analysis. The term "that" signifies Brahman himself as the ground of the universe and the soul of all individual selves.
Hence in the identity of "that" and "thou" there is no rejection of the specific connotation of the co-ordinate terms. The upshot of the dictum is that the individual selves and the world, which are distinct and real attributes, are comprehended in Brahman. Brahman as the inner self of the jiva and Brahman as the ground of the universe are one. The central principle is that whatever exists as an attribute of a substance, that being inseparable from the substance is one with that substance.
Thus Sri Ramanuja upholds all the three streams of thoughts in the Upanishads, namely, unity, plurality and both. He himself clinches the argument:
We uphold unity because Brahman alone exists with all other entities as his modes. We uphold both unity and plurality, as the one Brahman himself has all the physical and spiritual entities as his modes and thus exists qualified by a plurality. We uphold plurality as the three entities - the individual selves, the world and the supreme Lord - are mutually distinct in their substantive nature and attributes and there is no mutual transposition of their characteristicsERQ3FCHKA2WB
