(March 20, 2015 at 7:33 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: That stock objection is a straw man. Imagine a single sensible body like a boat. It has both a material of which it is made, say aluminum, and also partakes of a particular form. Anyone can see that the form 'acts' on the material by giving it properties, like buoyancy, and that the material allows the form to manifest. Form and material are inalienable and yet distinct, i.e. dualism.There are as many forms as there are possibilities in the material world. Why? Because you've done nothing but make an unnecessary and arbitrary cut between the design space of geometry and objects that actually exist.
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