From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 6:51 AM To: alt.atheism.moderated Subject: Re: Science & atheism are cultures. "Jesse Nowells" wrote: > > existence of the parts is defined with respect to the other parts. > > No, things are defined by their properties which doesn't necessarily > involved referring to speculations about totalities. Yes, things are defined by their properties, and the particular property of ontological existence indeed refers to causal relatedness to other things. Consider your criterion of "materiality". Matter is that which has mass and occupies space, but mass and space are in principle immeasurable and thus meaningless if there is only one object. > > Please identify this "something more than possible" > > that constitutes actuality for a world. > > Being actual & being possible are not incompatible Indeed, for a world they are indistinguishable. -- brian@holtz.org http://humanknowledge.net