[lit-ideas] Re: Do ideas exist before being articulated?

  • From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:56:37 +0900

On 10/15/07, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Again -- why cannot both models be valid??
>

Because they are contradictory. It is not logically possible for ideas
to both exist and not exist before they are articulated.

Unless, of course, they are something like Schodinger's cat....

John

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