Physical idealism

[The Grand Nudger]

All an MP3 is, is a standard format for -digital- audio. But go ahead, continue. 

Ideas of bullets don't bring bullets into reality...so I guess the idea of a bullet isn't a formative principle after all -by your own definition.

Bullets don't spontaneously erupt out of a pool of chemicals.  Nor did I say that anything is the expression of a single formative principle.  The fact is that there is a representation of what a bullet is that is not a bullet, and that serves as a template for the creation of actual bullets.

OFC they don't spontaneously erupt out of pools of chemicals, no one said they did. I only said that the "idea of a bullet" doesn't do what -you- claimed formative principles do.  They also aren't brought into reality by any -number- of ideas...as you've described ideas.so there's simply no way the proposition -can be- true. Find an example that works, at least by reference to your own statements.

If you want to challenge my knowledge of any of these things, go ahead.  With regard to MP3 files, I can guarantee, 100% chance, that I understand what they are and how they work much better than you do, since I've programmed with them pretty extensively.

Programmers often don't know how or why the things they work with, work.   More of a linguist, as a programmer, than a mechanic...wouldn't you agree? I'd like to see you program an MP3 with seashells, for example. That'd be a neat trick. I;m sure you can draw a picture of an mp3 file...but my daughters can draw a picture of the sun....does that mean that the sun is also independent of it's medium, a specific medium, it;s mechanism, or a mechanism?

But while my interest in the OP was sincere, my interest in this paint-drying-watching discussion with you is spent.  I guess that's it until the next time. /out

Till next time. o7