From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 00:37:28 MDT
At 11:27 PM 6/17/02 -0700, Lee wrote:
>The *reason* why
>ideal triangles exist is because they have identifiable non-
>arbitrary properties. Each one has a circumcenter, an ortho-
>center, and a Gergonne point. If they're not equilateral,
>then they also have an Euler line. All these relations and
>properties exist just as surely as you and I exist, IMO.
Not a chance. Surely `they' have properties that are *identifiable*; the
properties we gather together using these tags or signifiers are
*attributed* to a notional entity or signified. We don't *intuit the
essence* of some *supra-actual Thing* in Platospace, triggered by the
crippled triangular instantiation in front of us or inside our cognitive
mapping.
Damien Broderick
[that's my empirical intuition, anyway]
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