On 8/30/2021 3:29 AM, Tomas Pales wrote:
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.
In other words eternally at a particular time. Is there any reason I should take that seriously?
Any two things form a pair, why would anyone need to "nominate" them as a pair.
Being two things, or even one thing, is a conceptualization about the world. Brent -- 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/9c69e892-3d5c-5534-b218-7ac50464869a%40verizon.net.
