(January 18, 2016 at 8:55 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(January 18, 2016 at 7:42 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Is there anything that an idea cannot be? Is there anything an idea must be? It seems that under your view, an idea can be anything, so you haven't identified any parts which explain the composite. That's a weakness, not a strength. What are the practical limits on ideas in your Idealism?
I'd add another question here. How do we determine the difference between an "imaginary" idea and a "real" idea....or, if you prefer, the difference between an idea of a bullet hitting the idea of brain that results in the idea of death...a bullet hitting, and the idea of a bullet hitting the idea of a brain that doesn't.
When someone is hit with a bullet, their heart stops beating, and they stop calling people irrational.