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!
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