[ExI] Let's play What If.

Alan Grimes agrimes at speakeasy.net
Wed Nov 10 20:40:59 UTC 2010


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> If true then Existential Nihilism is a remarkably silly philosophy. You
> can't poke the number 42 in the arm because you wouldn't be able to find
> it, it possesses a size but no position; I doubt if you want to argue
> that the number 42 doesn't exist.

Of course the # 42 doesn't exist! It was invented just like every other
concept. That is not to say that the # 42 is either meaningless or
useless. The # 42 has a very well defined meaning *with respect to a
unit* (which may or may not be meaningful or useful). If you had 42
marbles, they would certainly exist and the number would be useful for
describing them.


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