field of sense

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Editorial synthesis · provisional

Definition

A field of sense, in the Gabriel-attributed account, is a domain within which something appears or exists through a determinate sense. Such fields are not merely private viewpoints and do not compose one completed field of all fields. AB further distinguishes the reality of imagining from the physical possibility of what is imagined, qualifying the use of Gabriel’s examples.

Explanation

RB1 describes senses as objective and modally robust features through which objects appear, rather than representations imposed by subjects. Its use of Gabriel supports a plurality of fields with their own norms of appearance and transformation. Plurality is offered as compatible with realism rather than a retreat into arbitrary perspective.

AB illustrates Gabriel’s generosity with an imagined unicorn and then limits its own commitment. The imagining is an actual mental event; the imagined creature is not thereby a physical possibility available in the specified situation. Its native note explicitly marks this divergence, so the two positions should not be silently harmonized.

RB3 similarly identifies fields of sense in discussing Gabriel and the denial of a completed totality. The philosophical dispute over unrestricted quantification remains open in its notes. This entry records the attributed domain concept and the author’s uses, rather than treating a mathematical analogy as proof of every ontological claim.

Scope and attribution

Retain the attributed main entry and the explicit AB modification.

AB — The Actual Book

Gabriel’s example is qualified by the distinction between imagining and physical possibility.

Occurrence locators: Epilogue: 215; Thinker register: 229; Notes: 251.

PB — The Possible Book

Source-verified occurrence; see the printed-page references below.

Occurrence locators: 147.

RB1 — The Real Book, Volume I: The Possible Is Real

Objective fields of appearance sustain plurality without mere subjectivism.

Occurrence locators: 127, 140.

RB3 — The Real Book, Volume III: Murmurations

Fields are discussed without a completed field of all fields.

Occurrence locators: Notes: 355, 356, 394; Epilogue: 355, 356.

Background used in the editorial explanation

Named theories and mechanisms are distinguished from neighboring background, homonyms and the author’s own synthesis. Reproduced AI passages retain their separate voice.