Pat Hayes schrieb:
>
> Well, I can see a lot of problems with this. If
> you believe, for example, that all spatiotemporal
> entities are in some sense physical, you will get
> into trouble. (01)
Let me from my philosophical corner just add one long sentence: No
famous philosophical ontologist who posits physical (material) things in
space and time has argued that everything that exists in space and time
is physical (material); for instance, many claim that property instances
*inhere in* physical things, but this does not mean that these
spatiotemporal instances *are* physical entities. (02)
/Ingvar J (03)
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Ingvar Johansson
IFOMIS, Saarland University
home site: http://ifomis.org/
personal home site:
http://hem.passagen.se/ijohansson/index.html (04)
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