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Language, having evolved over tens of thousands of years of the human practical use, is often smarter than us, and where we are forced to say that something exi
by Koshkin 5y ago
Language, having evolved over tens of thousands of years of the human practical use, is often smarter than us, and where we are forced to say that something exists, it usually does. It means that more often than not something that we describe in words is not merely an idea but has an objective meaning, i.e. has to do with reality and therefore exists, independently from from our minds. Thus not only “objects” exist, but also their properties as well as relations between them. A tip of the needle enjoys the same objective existence as does the needle itself, and this fact is easy to verify by sticking it in you finger. What other existence do you want?