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I realised that the "What exists, and in what ways do these things exist?" question is a bad one. We have the word "exists", we don't really know what it means, we want to. I was just writing to an email list about how doing the same thing with "love" is a terrible idea. So here's a solution to the question of existance: regard things to exist, when it is epistemically necessary to explaining reality.

Elliot Temple on March 17, 2003
Discuss this on my forum (see also the forum intro post).

Archived Comments (2)

what exactly is a terrible idea?

do you mean: questioning what ways love (and some other things) exists?


Anonymous at 2:25 PM on January 31, 2016 | #4761

hard to tell. i might have meant that, or might have been talking about a "What is love?" kinda question.


curi at 3:16 PM on January 31, 2016 | #4762