Brent Meeker wrote:
> peterdjones.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> ...
> > 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.
Ground them operationally, then. Real things have real properties and
unreal
things don't. Real properties can be observed empirically. Primeness
then is not
a real property.
> Brent Meeker
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Received on Fri Mar 17 2006 - 19:59:35 PST