[lit-ideas] Re: Movies without Guns, [email protected]


Le 16 sept. 05, à 12:13, Robert Paul a écrit :


By 'substance' I don't mean a Lockean substance which somehow underlies (or produces) our sensations and feelings, as a stone might produce certain sensations if held in one's hand, caressed, kicked, etc., and is essential itself spatially extended. When I say that I don't believe (and surely, on reflection, neither do you) that every noun has as its referent something that subsists by itself as a separate and distinct thing, I'm trying to point out that just because we can talk of knowledge, love, hope, and anger, these are not independently existing 'things,' over and above the acts, sensations, beliefs, and desires of sentient creatures of whom we say, e.g. 'He's angry,' or 'She's wildly in love with Ralph.' 

M.C. Was ist ein Ding?





Michael Chase
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France

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