humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Mar 27, 12:41 pm, Jim Klein wrote:

> Uh huh. Perhaps you can give us an example of an
> existent that doesn't have properties, so that we may
> contrast it with these sorts of existents (units) that do?
> That's Question #1.

I don't think it's possible to give an example of an existent that
doesn't have properties. But that just leads back to whether parts of
a plenum are "an existent".

> Does gravity have properties? Is gravity a unit?
> That's Questions 2 and 3. Please answer all three.

Yes, gravity has properties. Yes, gravity is a unit. (I don't think
it's reasonable to say that gravity is a unit in the absence of any
conscious beings at all. Nothing unifies the discrete events.)

Gravity may be much like the Greek's indivisible atoms. They existed,
but were not indivisible. They had properties, including
indivisibility. Existents like 'gravity' and 'indivisible atoms' arise
out of the application of cognitive models to information about the
outside world.

DS