If everything exists, then for existence rhetoric to not be trivial, it has to be reinterpreted as referring instead to local presence.
@preinfarction not obvious either way whether the brains sentence is a fair parody of the existence sentence
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@VesselOfSpirit Local presence is a type of existence. Having legs isn't a type of having a brain. -
@preinfarction human having legs implies human having a brain though -
@VesselOfSpirit Do you mean when combined with the assumption that all humans have brains? -
@preinfarction ya. like with the assumption that nearby things exist -
@VesselOfSpirit I did mean nearby when I said local. I meant something more like finite causal separation. Sorry. Does that clear things up? -
@VesselOfSpirit * did not. Also my guess is no, you'll still think that my thing is stupid and your parody is getting at something. -
@preinfarction i don't think it's stupid. just iffy -
@preinfarction it's just like people are like. let's pretend we're caring about a different thing to make the analysis more tractable - 1 more reply
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