Originally posted by Bosse de NageBut is dj real or not? It seems you are evading the question. If you cannot put him/her in a jar would you conclude that he/she is not real? How about emotions such as love and joy? Can you put them in a jar? Are feelings real?
I wish I could.
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Originally posted by Phuzudaka1. Yes. We could always find a big enough jar. Of course he might be some sort of unknown incorporeal life form, like a sentient gas. That would be interesting. (But we could still find the right jar. Oh, and wind being a movement of air, put some air in a jar and you have (potential) wind).
If you cannot put him/her in a jar would you conclude that he/she is not real? How about emotions such as love and joy? Can you put them in a jar? Are feelings real?
2. Good question. Feelings are produced effects, much like colours, and are necessarily relational. So, they do not exist on their own, and cannot be said to exist in the following sense:
"Real. Philos. Having an existence in fact and not merely in appearance, thought, or language; having an absolute and necessary, not merely a contingent, existence."
If I say "I am in love with dj2becker", I am describing the emotional effect produced on myself by the fact of his existence, but this effect is contingent on other factors, such as his being so damn sexy.
Happy to be corrected.
Originally posted by twhiteheadIs there not a difference bewteen moving smoke and moving air? Smoke moves out of a chimney. Would you say that is wind?
according to Merriam Webster:
1 b : an artificially produced movement of air
Of course what you see is the smoke particles only but that allows you to 'observe' the movement of the air.
Originally posted by Bosse de NageAnd there are so many people on this forum that have so many things in common with so many people that I know.
You and dj also have the deliberate obtuseness in common.
You for example have plenty in common with a character on Umuzi We'nsizwa.