(March 12, 2016 at 9:18 am)Irrational Wrote: Ok, I actually read the whole post. Still confusing, so let's go bit by bit here:
I agree with the first few paragraphs. So skipping over to the part where I started to get really confused. Can you explain to me more what this is actually saying?
Quote:Given that the aggregate of finite beings is not another entity, which has something additional to its parts, it does not have any reality at all.
I think it's saying that aggregates or groups are not actual entities in and of themselves. For example, "a dozen cars" is not an actual entity apart from its individual constituents. Aggregates or groups are just a concepts or names that refer to a number of actual individual units.
Quote:There's no way to distinguish between this "god" being in your imagination, and being something actually real. You can't talk things into existence.
Did you not read the part in my original post about the argument sidestepping the criticism of failure between notion and extension? This argument is based on actual external factuality and not simply notions/concepts/ideas.
