[MD] Essentials for target practice

[david buchanan]

John said to Ham:
I still have problems with nothingness.  I'd posit that we conceptualize nothingness from a pre-realized sense of being.  Nothingness is just too "not there" for any kind of perceptual distinguishing.

dmb says:
Well, I don't know what "a pre-realized sense of being" is supposed mean. But I think "nothingness" is just a reified abstraction of a very unfancy idea. We can say there is "nothing" in my pocket or there is "nothing" in my hand. But when "nothingness" itself is posited as a existential reality or an ontological fact, then you've gone off the deep end. You mistakenly turned an idea into a thing. And then you marvel at what a mysterious thing it is, becoming awestruck by a fiction. An example of actual "nothingness" would include my interest in "nothingness". It would be fun to diagram my interests in the form of a pie chart.


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Please notice the absence of the red area. It represents "nothingness". The blue area represents my interest in Absolute Idealism, by the way, and the white area represents my interest in good ideas.



Thanks,
dmb




 		 	   		  
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