Brent Meeker wrote: > [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.
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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
