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A comment on Steven Strogatz on chaos theory, game theory, and why math isn’t boring. Parent comment
No, because you can't ask for it's existence, before you thought of it.
>exists even when no-one is currently thinking of it
Again, who cares, it's by definition undefined, null, niente, the inbetween state of a ternary logic.
>I can imagine things
You can't will a pot of gold into existence by mere imagination, but you can't imagine an idea without it's inherint structure being real.
I'll admit, that's a simplistic outlook, but I wasn't encouraging a complicated discusion.
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No, because you can't ask for it's existence, before you thought of it.
>exists even when no-one is currently thinking of it
Again, who cares, it's by definition undefined, null, niente, the inbetween state of a ternary logic.
>I can imagine things
You can't will a pot of gold into existence by mere imagination, but you can't imagine an idea without it's inherint structure being real.
I'll admit, that's a simplistic outlook, but I wasn't encouraging a complicated discusion.