Bill!,
Well, now, it's not _a priori_, it is an empirical observation.
A Flower is not made of a Flower. It is made of water, sunlight, earth
minerals, carbon dioxide, etc., all NON-flower elements.
Pancakes are made of flour: a non-PANCAKE element!
Now, for fun I'll change the subject, a little:
What are you due to?
--Joe
> "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> Thanks for your explanation of 'conditioned-arising'. In it you start with
> the a base assumption that "Because things always consist of material, or
> energy, that came together to form or cause them, they are not themselves,
> but consist instead of these other disparate things,...". Why do you accept
> this a priori?
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