Abby and Norma #203
12 June, 2008 - Posted by: erika
But things that don't exist as tangible objects still exist as concepts in our minds! Except those that we haven't even imagined.
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There is nothing that doesn't exist.
What? I can think of plenty of things that don't exist.
I didn't say "everything you can think of exists." I said "there IS nothing that doesn't exist."
That's because the phrase "there is" means the same as "exists." Anything that doesn't exist isn't something there is.
I will tolerate your puns, but if you become obsessed with existential philosophy, I will get up and leave.
Hey, calm down. It's only semantics.
arbitrary aardvark - 23 August, 2009 - 09:54:00
no, they "subsist". it's a technical term used for just this problem.
here via abstruse goose.