It exists as sadness!
On Mar 25, 4:23 pm, Lonlaz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Inspired by the perhaps strange idea of asking if something exists or
> not. I ask, does anything really exist at all? Does Blue exist, for
> example?
>
> Now some of us would say that the very thought of being able to refer
> to something by a name would be common sense proof that it exists. So
> does a general concesus mean that something exists? What about the
> color blind?
>
> Now someone may say, of course there is a color Blue! It can be
> measured! Blue is photons oscillilating at 450 nm. But another might
> say, that is a paltry existence, a bunch of transient particles
> without mass waving about, only to be snuffed out of existance by a
> retina. And like the tree that fell in the forest, if the wavy
> particles don't hit a retina, are they still Blue?
>
> Muddling the question further, there are those that dispute Blue is a
> color at all. These 'Synthenasist' claim Blue is a taste, a sound, or
> perhaps even a feeling.
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