On Sunday, August 29, 2021 at 9:11:34 PM UTC+2 Brent wrote: > > > On 8/29/2021 5:50 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > On Sunday, August 29, 2021 at 1:46:50 AM UTC+2 Brent wrote: > >> >> If you ask the same question about numbers it seems that maybe they can >> exist because there are a lot of different pairs and without one of them >> the number 2 can count another pair. But can 2 exist if there are no pairs >> to count, or no counters to identify pairs? >> > > Number 2 is a relational property of all pairs. I don't think that a > property can exist without that which it is a property of. It is the > meaning/nature of property to be a property of something. All pairs exist > eternally, just like number 2 and everything else. > > > All the pairs I know of, my shoes, my gloves, my dogs,... do NOT exist > eternally. And they are only conceived of as pairs because I and other > people nominate such. >
They exist eternally at a particular spacetime location. Any two things form a pair, why would anyone need to "nominate" them as a pair. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1baa472a-65a2-44d5-9b1b-7b4b5441789cn%40googlegroups.com.
