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From: stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Greg Stevens)
Subject: Re: Is time continuous?
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In <3j6eii$f0p@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
>In article <1995Mar2.044410.9376@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
>Greg Stevens <stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu> wrote:

>>          Thus, if we are not aware of something, we can not apply any term
>>          to it defining it as an "object," as distinguished from anything
>>          else.

>Sure we can.  Say "object with an unknown distinction".  I suppose that you
>can decide that 'unknown distinction' is not a term.

Well, first of all, there is a different between implying that something
has a distinction which we are not aware of, and that something has
not distinguishing characteristics (i.e. no phenomenology).  "Object
with unknown distinction" is different from "object without any
distinction" -- the latter of the two I reject the possibility of.

Second of all, there cn only be one such object, that being the object
which is distinguished by having no distinctions (and even that is having
a distinction).  So saying that there is a possibility of objects with
ontological existence but not phenomenological existence is still
wrong, as there could be definition be only one such, and it would have
the phenomenological ascription of having no distinctions in our 
perceptual universe.

Greg Stevens

stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu

