> > >> Roger: Even if no mind has yet conceived the the 10^(10^(10^100))th >> decimal point of pi, the pi proposition and therefore the process of >> calculating its 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal point and being confident that >> if you do the process that that number is either 0-9 are all located inside >> the mind/head. My view is that whenever we talk about something existing, >> we have to specify where and when it exists, that is, in what context or >> domain it exists. A thing can exist in one place and not another. A ball >> can exist outside the head, and a mental construct labeled "the concept of >> a ball" can exist inside the head. >> > > If a ball can exist outside the mind/head, why can't the > 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal point of pi exist outside the mind/head? What > property must a thing have to have an independent existence outside of any > mind? (according to your theory?) > > Jason > > >> So, if the pi process were carried out inside the mind/head long enough >> to figure out the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal point, that mental construct >> for that number (which would be 0-9) would exist inside the mind/head but >> not outside the mind/head. So, the mind is able to reify things (like the >> 10^(10^(10^100))th >> decimal point of pi) so that they exist but so that they only exist inside >> the mind/head and not outside the mind/head. >> >>> >>> Roger: Just because things can exist outside the mind/head doesn't mean that a specific thing does occur outside the mind/head. If the pi proposition and the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal point of pi can be shown outside the mind/head or any experimental evidence for the existence of the pi proposition or the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal point of pi existing outside the mind/head, I'd be happy to accept it. I can see that a circle can exist outside the head, but I don't see anywhere outside the mind/head, the proposition that if you divide the circle's circumference by its diameter you get pi.
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