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>phenomena that we perceive as occurring with a certain regularity
…otherwise known as “things”, no? What “thing” in all the vastness of the consciousness-of-whatever-is-out-there is anything other than this?
My point is simply that the labels we attach to things are not the things themselves. And if someone wants to use the same label for a different set of phenomena, we can’t settle the dispute by reference to the underlying phenomena.
>phenomena that we perceive as occurring with a certain regularity
…otherwise known as “things”, no? What “thing” in all the vastness of the consciousness-of-whatever-is-out-there is anything other than this?
My point is simply that the labels we attach to things are not the things themselves. And if someone wants to use the same label for a different set of phenomena, we can’t settle the dispute by reference to the underlying phenomena.