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To: AndrewC
Well, the monitor in front of your face is not a concept(at least I think so), but rights and truth are.

Sure it is, and it requires a substantial amount of ideation, both for me to recognize what class of thing it is, and for the designers to have produced it. The concreteness of a particular manifestation of a thing is no sure measure of its objective existence. I'm convinced of the objective existence of the law of gravity outside of human perception of it, for instance. I am less sure about rights and truth having cooresponding objective manifestation outside the realm of human perception, but I am open to demonstration, as soon as anyone can think of a persuasvie experiment.

6,193 posted on 01/30/2003 10:46:42 AM PST by donh
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To: donh
Sure it is, and it requires a substantial amount of ideation, both for me to recognize what class of thing it is, and for the designers to have produced it.

So it goes away when you go to sleep?

6,196 posted on 01/30/2003 11:00:28 AM PST by AndrewC
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