Group: humanities.philosophy.objectivism
From: Jim Klein
Date: Monday, March 17, 2008 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: Objectivity and "intrinsicism".

On Mar 17, 4:29 pm, "Robert J. Kolker"
wrote:

> Jim Klein wrote:
>
> > Does THAT STAR exist? Does it cover a particular area of
> > the universe, in what's modelled as space-time? IOW does
> > it have a size?
>
> Not exactly. The sun is a turbulent body of gas. It roils, it boils, it
> shoots out hot gobs of charged particles. Not only that it is subject to
> gravitational-tidal forces which lengthen and flatten it. The sun
> breaths, as it were.

Sorry, I keep forgetting you're out there, Bob. You remind
me of me...when I was 8 years old.


> Do our lungs have an exact size?

The relevant question for this thread is whether they have
ANY size, not whether their size is static.


jk

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