Philosophical Ramblings Thread

[Seamus Fermanagh]

So you were mocking me?

Welcome to the life of the scholar.

[Papewaio]

Definition of abstract:
"existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence."

Your thesis:
" I'm merely implying a rejection of the assumption that the abstract is non-physical."

[Montmorency]

"Existing in thought" - so abstractness is a construction of thought, as opposed to a physical entity or having a physical realization.

But if you assume that thought is physical, then the physicality of abstractness follows automatically.

So I'm not using a different formal sense of the term, but am instead implicitly adopting a different account of the nature of thought.

[Montmorency]

In other words, even the "concept" of abstractness has a different concrete realization from person to person.

[Raz]

Oh boy, i hope Mont gets drunk again soon and posts further ramblings - I, for one, can't wait.

[Montmorency]

Foresight is the only insight. All else is confabulation.

[Papewaio]

Foresight is the only insight. All else is confabulation.

In hindsight you are correct