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To: A. Pole

Well, now you're simply playing with language, claiming all substantives are substances, when they can be events also.


186 posted on 08/28/2006 3:53:39 PM PDT by JHBowden (Speaking truth to moonbat.)
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To: JHBowden
Well, now you're simply playing with language, claiming all substantives are substances, when they can be events also.

OK, let us not play games. I asked about definition of matter and you said that "matter is anything that exists in space-time". This is not a definition of matter.

It is a claim that only matter exists in space-time and that no matter exists outside of space-time. But what is matter? And what is space-time?

In ancient times one sophist defined human being as featherless biped. So one guy brought him a plucked chicken and said: "here is your human being".

193 posted on 08/28/2006 6:43:40 PM PDT by A. Pole (Schneider: "I, Rob Schneider, a 1/2 Jew, pledge from this day forward to never work with Mel Gibson")
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