peterdjones.domain.name.hidden wrote:
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> Errmm..but if the universe is the set of all real
> things, then they all share the "property" of realness.
> Perhaps you mean: what is the difference between real
> things and unreal things? Well, the difference is that
> real things have properties and unreal things don't.
> Thus existence is not an ordinary propery, but what
> follows from the existence of any other property.
This doesn't help much though because "property" is no better defined than
"real". Does 7 have the property of being prime? Does that make 7 "real"? If
definitions are to identify what is "real" then I think they need to be grounded
ostensively or operationally - logic can only impose consistency on concepts; it
can't create things out of words.
Brent Meeker
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Received on Fri Mar 17 2006 - 17:23:39 PST