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To: kosta50
Then that is your error. If we have some conception of a thing we can attempt to find words that describe it more fully. Some concepts are extremely difficult to relate to with a mental picture, an electrical charge or what time is but having experienced them we try to find the words.

Our vocabularies are limited in their ability to describe that which we cannot put our hands on, a colour already being mentioned, the scent of a flower or what an electron actually is.
All exist whatever our limited ability to fully describe them.

1,549 posted on 07/22/2010 1:14:12 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
If we have some conception of a thing

Based on what?

1,586 posted on 07/22/2010 6:26:18 PM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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To: count-your-change
Our vocabularies are limited in their ability to describe that which we cannot put our hands on, a colour already being mentioned, the scent of a flower or what an electron actually is. All exist whatever our limited ability to fully describe them.

They can be described by chemical and mathematical terms, demonstrated experimentally and isolated. None of them require faith.

1,590 posted on 07/22/2010 6:36:50 PM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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