On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 4:46 PM Philip Thrift <cloudver...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's true, just like Bruno I also believe in the existence of immaterial >> things. I believe that adjectives exist and in fact I am one, I am the way >> atoms behave when they are organized in a Johnkclarkian way. I disagree >> with Bruno in that I maintain adjectives can not exist without nouns >> existing first, but Bruno claims they can. I believe in other >> non-material things too. Adjectives describe what nouns are, verbs describe >> what nouns do, and adverbs describe verbs. All of those things exist, but >> it all starts with nouns, without them you've got nothing not even time >> because time needs change and without nouns that obey the laws of physics >> nothing would change. >> > > *> I think these (adverbs, adjectives) are just inventions of language > that we use to navigate and manipulate matter. We are bewitched by language > into thinking linguistic things exist that don't exist. * > Well maybe so, but we think and communicate in language, words and numbers are all we have so imperfect or not they will just have to do. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv27DbpO%2BOGP-v4twVjMsUyeZ_Q5oRom%3DMV%2BZ6gBRqh%2Bgg%40mail.gmail.com.
