On 2/26/2020 2:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Being sure of that sentence is true, "Dr Watson was a friend of
Sherlock Holmes." doesn't mean the things named in the sentence exist.
It certainly means that Watson and Homes exist, in some sense. The
question is “is that sense interesting with respect to our goal of
explaining "everything” (matter and consciousness) in a coherent way?
They exist in exactly the same way arithmetic and Turing machines exist.
Brent
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