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Originally Posted by litewave
It seems that what all existing things have in common is that they have an identity: they are identical to themselves and different from what they are not. I can't imagine a thing that does not have an identity; it seems like it would be nothing.
But being identical to oneself and different from others means being logically consistent and therefore logically possible. So all existing things must be logically possible. But are there things that are logically possible and yet they don't exist? What would it even mean?
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you've hit on something there
litewave.
it's a strange twist (more than wordplay i believe) that the factor of commonality
which unites beings is at once the force which makes them all unique: identity.
[my logic leads me to believe that there is a singular unique thing... if there
were many unique items, they would lose that quality. my sense is that there
is a unique Source, and that all (other) things are derived from it.]
i can readily imagine a "logically possible" thing that doesn't (yet) exist.
any proposed project that might be built seems to fit that criteria.