On 2/17/2012 1:59 AM, meekerdb wrote:
On 2/16/2012 9:53 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
You do realize that this gives a definition of "existence" that
is very different from that that almost all philosophers use. That's
OK, Bruno is not a philosopher although he does pretend to be one
very well. :-)
I don't think it's different. Bruno has remarked that existence is
relative to a theory. This is the view of Quine who said that a think
exists if it is an essential element of your theory.
Hi Brent,
This idea is philosophically distasteful for it implies that
existence supervenes on our consciousness or, more weakly, on our
theory-craft. I think that it is exactly backwards. Consciousness
supervenes on existence. Am I using the word "supervene" correctly here?
Onward!
Stephen
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