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Originally Posted by Felicity
But in the act itself of "defining" anything (and every thought defines perception)...you demonstrate the "reality" (as others have said: the "approximation") of the existence of an absolute by imagining a point of reference. Even if the point of reference is a relationship between two perceptions--the cognition of each perception itself references a commonality that is universal.
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I think that is what I was trying to express. It's not until we try and define something that an absolute can exsist. For instance everything is stuff. Then we decide what is stuff and what is not. The very act of making that decision creates an artifical absolute.
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