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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (24136)6/29/2006 6:19:04 PM
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"Things that are discovered or rediscovered exist 'someplace' prior to discovery.

That really doesn't make sense."

Our context was ideas and discovery or rediscovery of ideas. In the example given, rocks exist in the time frame we were discussing (1000 years prior to now, up to now). The Austrailian from one thousand years ago can get the idea of rocks and I can get the same idea of rocks without getting it from him. We may, do different things with the idea, skip it across water, break it down into basic elements for further study etc. But we get the same impression when we go to the stream to view the idea. It is a rock.

Rocks are rocks and we can have a common awareness of them. But our conscious awareness of rocks requires getting that idea from some place. My contention is that 'someplace' in this case can be in a particular space and time without being dependant on that space and time. That is, presupposing that the Austrailian and I are getting the same idea of a rock.
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