(November 1, 2010 at 8:14 pm)Saerules Wrote: SureWe've described 'God', 'miracles', and 'magic', therefore they are things (that we know about). Maybe we've never seen them before... but they are as much a thing to me as China.
There could also possibly be things that we do not know about (ie: the 'New World' before its discovery).
What matters is what kind of thing it is, be it physical, conceptual or non-contingent.
Physical things are things made of matter and/or energy. Physical things can give rise to conceptual things.
Concepts are models of non-contingent and/or physical things. A concept's existence has no bearing on whether or not the physical or non-contingent thing to which it refers exists. Mathematics is a pure concept, Ball is a concept of something physical and God is a concept of the non-contingent.
Non-contingent things are things like the logical absolutes, intrinsic values and gods. Some non-contingent things are necessarily true, like the law of non-contradiction, or any tautology, where as some non-contingent things are only concepts of possibly non-contingent things, like Intrinsic values and gods.
Quote:The solipsists, for all of their flaws about the self being the only knowable thing, are at least correct when they note that all can easily be a delusion of the mind, that even their own existence is known because of a concept (of self).
To which I say to the silly solipsists who believe that premise (not the one's who acknowledge the possibility):
If this is a delusion or just imagination, do you not feel like like a complete twat for not being able to come up with something more interesting?
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