I'm no math expert either ftr.
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There are multiple ontological ways for things to exist. Mass "exists" as a property, for instance, even though it's just a description.
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What I see in args using platonism to argue for dualism is an attempt to bait and switch between these different types of "existence"
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Well, ideas and concepts are on a different plane to brains which come up with them & environments which provide them but so what?
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I'm not sure why the existence of concepts which work is significant to the argument abt whether there needs to be more than brains & things
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It's not. That's what I've been arguing :p
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It's what I've been trying to argue too but when the conversation goes into the realms of maths, I can't know if it still works.
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So I am hoping that Christian and James will now argue about this in terms I can understand so I can get some idea whether it does!
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I think you'll find that arguments against physicalism are largely manufactured complexity in general. The whole pt is to confuse you.
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