Posted: Mar 18, 2010 5:19 pm
Audley Strange wrote:Nocterro wrote:Audley Strange wrote:Because I know what X is "claimed" to be and finding no evidence of it other than as a word and self referential concept treat it as meaningless and since it has no analogue withing reality consider it non-existent.
Exactly! I'm not saying that everything with a definition exists in reality. I'm saying that we can define things that do not exist in reality.
I don't disagree, however without something real to refer to such concepts are meaningless and non-existant. Thus evil is non-existent. Since it is non-existent it is pointless to discuss. Unless you want to but it'll be pretty much meaningless.
That's fine. My contention was with your statement "I'm not, it doesn't exist thus it can't be defined.".
Now you say you do not disagree with "Exactly! I'm not saying that everything with a definition exists in reality. I'm saying that we can define things that do not exist in reality."
Do you retract your original statement?