Dear Terry,
Without going into the whole shebang -- I'll post later -- I want to say that in the effort to
be scientifically accurate, you sometimes seem to get wrapped up in what seem, at least
to me, to be odd and inaccurate concepts.
"A swim" is not a "pseudo-real entity." The term "a swim" does not refer to a thing that one
can collect and return with, but it refers, rather, to a process. The process exists as long as
one is swimming and no longer. If, however, one documents the process as, for example,
the Olympic swimming events or Burt Lancaster's movie The Swimmer, then one can show
"a swim." What you can't do is to collect or keep the swim itself when the process is finished.
The swim itself is very real, not pseudo-real.
At some points in these conversations, I think you add sense -- at other points, I think you're
trying too hard. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, there was an American television show titled
All in the Family. The central character in this show was a fellow named Archie Bunker. Archie
said of "a beer" something not unlike what you say about collecting "a swim." Archie said, "You
can never really buy beer -- you can only rent it."
That, of course, leads us to process theology. One wonders whether those fellows in the College
of Cardinals are going out for a beer after a hard day in the conclave.
Ken
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:38:57 +0530, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
a philosophically defined abstract concept referring
>to a pseudo-real entity (similar to 'peace' or 'a swim' (if you are 'going
>for aswim' then when you come back show me this 'swim' thing that you have
>gone to collect).
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