[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Brent Meeker --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---