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From: snodgras@cts.com (John E. Snodgrass)
Subject: Re: Is time continuous?
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 10:03:41 GMT
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In article <1995Mar2.044410.9376@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Greg Stevens) writes:

[del]
>I still think it is impossible to support the position that there is something
>which exists for which there are no perceptual properties.  

      It's reasonable to believe things exist now for which we have no
perceptual properties because they have before. Who could have conceived
of Andromeda galaxy or the endoplasmic reticulum in 1400? As we continue
to discover more and more, are we not gathering evidence that there is yet
more to discover? I think that's fair. 

      JES
