Posted: Mar 18, 2010 8:18 pm
Teuton wrote:Audley Strange wrote:However you say concepts do not depend on meaningfulness.
No, that's not what I said. I said that a concept <F> can be perfectly meaningful if there are no Fs or even cannot be any Fs.
That is, the existence and meaningfulness of a concept <F> is independent of the actual or possible existence of Fs.
I would agree that concepts exist. I disagree that they have any real meaning or value unless they relate to that which is real.
I need to go do some work, I'll continue with these later.