Re: BHA: negativity wins

[Ruth Groff <rgroff@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Caroline,

You wrote:
>But IF we embrace this
>way of understanding existence and change, we surely need to recognise that
>de-onts and absences are parasitic on onts and presences for their
>specificity.  The causal powers of an absence depend on the causal powers of
>the thing that is absent, i.e. on the nature and structure of this thing,
>since an absence can't have nature and structure in its own right. So if
>de-onts are real, they are real by virtue of the reality of the thing that
>exists, (in whatever sense it does exist) not in the same way onts are real.

This seems right to me, but I'm pretty sure that it's because I don't care
for the whole framework.  I suspect that others are tearing their hair out!

Warmly,
Ruth



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