Do you have a set of phenomena that can be plausibly explained by fairies, a plausible implementation of faerie, and a plausible mechanism by which they came into existence?
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Are you denying the existence of the possibility of the fae without such a set of phenomena?
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Replying to @PeterSjostedtH @samim
No, but it dramatically reduces the likelihood.
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So you accept the existence of possibilities after all.
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Replying to @PeterSjostedtH @samim
I thought you had misspelled the "possibility of existence". I think you can talk about existence of possibilities in the same sense as you can talk about the existence of other Platonic entities, but that is not an ontological sense.
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Why do you think Platonic entities are not ontological ones? Gödel, for one, understood them as real (as well as Russell, Frege, Santayana, Whitehead, et al.).
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Replying to @PeterSjostedtH @samim
Our brain appears to have a tendency to label representations as real if their properties cannot be changed by mental activity. Since mathematical objects are discovered, not created, they appear to be real, despite being only generative representations.
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But now I'm confused: if you believe mathematical objects to be discovered rather than created, then that is Platonism, of which possibilities are other real (though not actual) existents. Perhaps by 'existence' you originally meant actuality rather than reality – ?
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Replying to @PeterSjostedtH @samim
I am sorry, I did not mean to add to your confusion.
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So do clarify–
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I am not sure that there is a point. I am sincerely concerned with what is going on, and not so much with sophistry.
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Replying to @Plinz @PeterSjostedtH
The medium (twitter) is especially ill-suited for such profound debates. If you both are ever in Berlin or London, drinks on me.
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Replying to @samim @PeterSjostedtH
During studying it, I realized that philosophy is not so much a productive discipline of inquiry as it is a culture, which is why I am not really interested in being a philosopher.
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