RE: On Hell and Forgiveness
September 13, 2018 at 11:05 am
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2018 at 11:15 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(September 13, 2018 at 10:50 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:(September 13, 2018 at 10:47 am)SteveII Wrote: There is not a person in the world that would agree that the number 4 is subjective.
*bzzzt* Wrong answer. If you were aiming for hyperbole, well, mission accomplished!
Indeed. He should have qualified his statement by saying that no rational person believes that the number 4 is subjective. When SteveII asked Polymath for his age, he might has well have added "checkmate."
(September 13, 2018 at 11:01 am)robvalue Wrote: The number 4 is an abstract concept.
Of course it is abstract. The process of abstraction entails abstracting from a thing or group attributes that are actually manifest in those objects. Every true description is a description of something that is actually the case, i.e. a fact. The recognition of those attributes is used to form a mental concept. Mental concepts are also 'real', just in a different category of being. I love how you can talk about things as if they were real and then turn around and say they are nothing at all.
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