Re: Some thoughts from Grandma

From: Russell Standish <lists.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:51:33 +1000

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 04:28:51PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote:
>
> I don't see that "relexive" adding anything here. It's just "existence" simpliciter isn't it?
>

Brent, all that David is getting at is saying nothing "reflexively
exists" without being observed. The tree falling unobserved in the
forest does not exist reflexively, but may exist in other senses of
the word. It seems quite a useful concept - I may have called it
anthropic existence elsewhere, but it doesn't seem to have an accepted
name.

Cheers

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Received on Thu Jul 12 2007 - 22:51:52 PDT