RE: Disproving Odin - An Experiment in arguing with a theist with Theist logic
March 17, 2018 at 12:15 am
(March 16, 2018 at 5:01 pm)SteveII Wrote: Here's a question, if there exists a copy of a novel (in some forgotten place) that no one has seen or heard of in a 1000 years, does the abstract object exist? Or, is it merely a potential while it sits dormant before a mind resurrects it from the pages? Hmm...
I'd tend to go with "potential," as the author and any contemporaneous readers are deceased and no one else has read it yet. Not much you can do with an unperceived abstraction: In the eyes of the living it doesn't exist.