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"4" is a concept, but you don't deny that the 4 turnips on your table do have physical reality, do you? Is the notion that there are an infinite number of turni
by jacobmoe 8y ago
"4" is a concept, but you don't deny that the 4 turnips on your table do have physical reality, do you? Is the notion that there are an infinite number of turnips spread out through an infinite universe "just a concept" whose physical reality we don't have to bother ourselves with, in a way that those 4 turnips aren't?
- zaarn 8y agoI will not deny that a collection of atoms, mostly carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, with the rough weight of 4 turnips, is on the table and looks like 4 turnips. The 4 turnips do have physical reality but on the other hand, the 4 in this scenario is not a realized concept, there is nothing physical about the 4 in this scenario since all the things in it are made of particles made of mostly nothing.