(January 27, 2022 at 2:24 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Although they are related questions, knowing that something exists is different from knowing what that something is. IMHO a minimal theory of an intelligible reality includes a phenomenal aspect, a nomenal one, and a relationship between them.
Yes, of course. For example, we detected cathode rays before we knew they were electrons.
But, to know something exists, you at least need to know *some* property that distinguishes it. You may not know *every* property it has, or even a representative sample of such properties. But you do need to have at least one that allows some sort of detection.
