(July 16, 2019 at 1:11 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(July 16, 2019 at 11:56 am)Bucky Ball Wrote: "Non-existence" is a category. It exists in your mind.
Existence is nothing other than a descriptive category.
correct.
Quote:There are "things".
Agreed.
Quote:We *describe* them as having *existence*. They don't actually *have* (any additional) "thing" (called existence).
Also agreed. I would even say that the statement: “X exists” is a tautology if X does, in fact, exist. I don’t think Bel disagrees with any of this, but I’ll let him answer for himself from this point forward.
Do you agree that all that actually exists is energy ?
Some of that is converted to matter.
Matter is rearranged temporarily, and those temporary rearrangements are what we perceive as existing.
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