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Author Topic:   can science accept assertive law?
Woodsy
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Message 48 of 78 (445122)
01-01-2008 9:20 AM
Reply to: Message 44 by tesla
12-31-2007 7:29 PM


existence:n. the basis of all things that "are". it was/is the energy that was before all things that are, which was intelligent, and created all that is from itself. based on faith it was. and therefore established the state of "being" or "existing".
This looks to me to be an example of the horribly insidious fallacy of reification: treating something as a thing when it is not. For example, fire can be described as a thing, but we know very well that it is a process.
Surely existence is a condition, not a thing.
Reification is very productive of impressive-sounding nonsense.

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