On 25 November 2013 10:53, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > That isn't a problem at all. It's just like the arguments about the > existence of god; first you have to define what you mean by "god" before > you can answer whether "god exists" or not. So what is the definition of > "physical reality"? It seems to me that "physical" only adds the concept > of shared/public. But Plato also intended his reality to be shared and > public. > > It seems quite hard to pin down exactly what physical means, now that we can no longer visualise particles as tiny billiard balls. I think the important point is whether "physical" is fundamental, or derived from something else. Aristotle would say the former, Plato the latter.
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