On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 9:57:29 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote:
>
>  On 10/29/2013 5:40 PM, LizR wrote:
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>  On 30 October 2013 13:24, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com<javascript:>
> > wrote:
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>>
>> On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:52:12 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: 
>>
>>>  On 30 October 2013 07:15, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Matter is concrete sense that extends to the inertial frame of the 
>>>> body. Get rid of your body, and your dream is matter.
>>>>
>>>>   Goo goo goo joob! 
>>>  
>>>  Sorry, but that does sound like a surreal 60s lyric, though it could 
>>> maybe do with a bit of "poeticisation" to really work.
>>>
>>>   
>> Laugh if you must, but if you were in a dreaming coma and never wake up, 
>> your matter would be as real to you as anything every could be to anyone. 
>> If you can define matter in terms other than what has been detected by our 
>> minds using our body's sense, and/or an instrument's sense, then you might 
>> have cause to doubt me, but nobody has any other definition available to 
>> them.
>>  
>   
> There is another definition and is in fact the one we use. Matter is the 
> stuff we agree about with other people as having certain properties of 
> duration and location.  Of course if you're a solipist you're on you're own.
>

What is stuff? 

I would say that stuff is "what has been detected by our minds using our 
body's sense, and/or an instrument's sense," is it not?

We agree about lots of things having properties of duration and location. A 
headache for example.


> Brent
>
>     
>>   Well I did apologise. Anyway I agree with your reply - if you'd said 
> that in the first place, it wouldn't have sounded like gobbledegook.
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