(January 16, 2014 at 10:46 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: @Tea Er, no. Abstract things CAN, on several views, exist entirely apart from the human mind. The position known as mathematical Platonism alone makes your argument unsound at premise 1.
Can the visions of your "mind's eye" exist apart from your mind? Imagine a box. Now, if you were to die, does that box you imagined still exist?
How does imagination differ from abstract objects? It seems to me that abstract objects are merely products of our imagination that we create to more easily understand the word and achieve things in it.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
