Re: BHA: Causal powers of absences? and other things

["Tobin Nellhaus" <nellhaus@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Caroline, glad to see you join in the B list.  You wrote:

>But what sense?  I dont believe that absences can be causally
>powerful.  Its only in a grammatical sense that the hole in the ozone
>layer , rather than what it lets through,  has causal power.

Besides what Colin offers, a quote from a Laurie Anderson song seems apt:
"It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole."

Cheers.

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Tobin Nellhaus
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"Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce




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