(October 31, 2010 at 1:11 pm)Existentialist Wrote: But being non-existent there doesn't prevent it existing elsewhere, i.e. in the mind. Therefore a non-existent thing can exist. You don't have to re-define existence, but it does help to qualify it, I agree.
This is very good, you seem to be the only one to have picked this up and described it reasonably accurately. If something is thought of, it then becomes a thing. And things exist.
You say a non-existent thing can exist, but you probably should say a non-existent thing outside of the mind.
Use of language is very interesting if you ask me.
