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Re: basic question

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Monday, June 11, 2001, 0:53
From: "claudio" <claudio.soboll@...>
> you confront me with rare exceptions, but ok... > "dragons" and "unicorns" are concrete terms because they describe > imaginable "things". it doesnt matter if they exist or not. > > thats my opinion, > abstraction in this context is characterized through its > un-imaginableness. > > we could debate about feelings like "love" "valor" "passion", > and man could say feelings are a kind of preception. > > i would reduce perception to the 5 biological senses excluding > feelings. to get a sharp grisp avoiding cases of doubts.
5 senses? How about "quark" or "UV ray"? Are "noise" and "light" concrete and "silence" and "darkness" abstract? (Hmm...) *Muke! -- http://personal.southern.edu/~alrivera/

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