[MD] Quick one: causation

[MarshaV]

At 11:19 PM 1/18/2009, you wrote:
>[Marsha]
>My meaning is that a thing does not inherently exist.  A thing exist
>based on convention.
>
>[Krimel]
>So what does "exist" or have inherent existence?
>

Krimel,

No thing inherently exists.  No thing exists from its own 
side.  There is no thing-in-itself.  No thing has its own essence or 
nature, etc.

Entities exist by convention and are best represented as patterns, 
ever-changing, interrelated, mutually dependent static patterns of value,


Marsha





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The Universe is uncaused, like a net of jewels in which each is a 
reflection of all the others in a fantastic, interrelated harmony without end.
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