As you know, I believe if a tree falls in the forest it does indeed make a sound even if noone hears - and I offer the sound waves recorded in the CMB approx. 300,000 years after the big bang as evidence. So the logic is not applicable to me, but it ought to be quite interesting to see how the Nominalists respond!
"So the logic is not applicable to me, but it ought to be quite interesting to see how the Nominalists respond!"
Oh boy, now MY head hurts!
I would have posted this essay earlier, but I had a very, very busy day today!
If you get a chance, give us a quick explanation of what "universals" are (for the benefit of any lurkers out there), and the consquences for believing/not believing in such things...
If a tank overflows, and the guy in the control room was on his break and didn't see the alarm, does he have to clean up the spill?
Or perhaps another one. If a million people are killed in the Sudan, but the journalists are covering the story from Nairobi, is anyone really dead?
Thanks for pinging me.
Yes, but is it green?
Dinosaurs leave fossil tracks too, even no one made plaster casts at the time. Fossil wind patterns can be seen at Canyon de Chelly (which has an interesting pronunciation.) Fossil bark beetle tracks in petrified wood is amusing as I just had to remove 13 piñons due to beetle damage (fortunately FEMA paid and put a restriction on planting more); seems like beetles have been eating bark for a long time.