(March 23, 2015 at 11:03 pm)Pizz-atheist Wrote:Interesting, to say the least. I'm not really sure in what way they exist, except that they're abstract but seem to have properties that don't depend on their existing in minds.(March 23, 2015 at 10:34 pm)Nestor Wrote: What about abstract objects, like numbers?The interesting question about abstract objects is in what way do they "exist?" "Exists" is a very vague verb. What does it mean to say, "the number two exists without there being groups of twos in the universe or groups of two in my imagination?"
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