Posted by dorayme on 07/07/05 03:53

> From: mbstevens <NOXwebmasterx@xmbstevensx.com>
>
> Once specified clearly, the thing we specified
> _is_. Just not in a physical sense.
>

I don't think existence has different senses. If a and b exist, then they
exist in exactly the same sense. It is tempting to suppose that a cup of
coffee can exist in a physical sense whereas a ghost or god or number or
class can exist in a non-physical sense, but this is not so. Things either
exists or they don't. If the cup exists then it is certainly a physical
object. If it was not a physical object, it would not exist. It would not
exist in a non-physical way. This is not because non-physical objects can't
exist (numbers may well do so). The fundamental reason for all this is that
there are no *ways* in which things exist. They either exist or they don't.
The existence itself is pure and has no qualities.

By the way - because this would really be getting too far off the OP's
original question and I am a firm believer in sticking to topic - this is
partly why God does not exist ...

dorayme

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