On Wednesday, January 1, 2020 at 7:14:15 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 1/1/2020 2:50 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > Where to people get the idea that there are any *non-material things*? > It's baffled me to see that people believe in that all my life (or since > high school days anyway). It's just plain weird. > > > Perhaps it's because there are predicates and relations of material things. > > Brent > > > To me - and I think this is consistent with other *neopramatists* [ Richard Rorty, etc. "drawing inspiration from John Dewey, Martin Heidegger, Wilfrid Sellars, W. V. O. Quine, Jacques Derrida" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopragmatism ], *predicates and relations* are (just) linguistic entities that appear in sentences. They are - as written sequences of letters (like you are looking at right now on a laptop or smartphone, which are probably just electronic dots on a screen of pixels, so 100% material) when combined - become operators to be used in the language 'game'.
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