And that alien would simply not know about chairs, rather than some awkward notion of the chair existing for us and not for them. "The atomness of atoms exists in the mind of the person" "the x-ness of the fundamental building block of the universe exists in the mind..."
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How so? You still deal with chairs as simply objectively existing without ever referencing the atoms. You aren't a reductionist in practice in 99% of your everyday dealings with the world
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Because I don't need to be one 99% of the time. That doesn't mean we can't reduce things when we need to.
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