<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 2:42 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Reading these conversations over the last few days, it has struck me <br>
that some people keep referring to 'real' things, usually using the word <br>
'referents' (e.g. an apple), as though our brains had direct access to <br>
them and could somehow just know what they are.<br>
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But we don't.<br>
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Think about it, what is "An Apple"?<br>...<br>
There is no spoon! Er, Apple. There is no Apple!<br>
Not as a 'real-world thing'.<br></blockquote><div><br>It would seem that you would rather say that apples are not real than say that the word "apple" has meaning.<br><br>-gts <br><br> </div></div></div>