SUO: Re: Lifecycle Integration Schema
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LIS. Discussion Note 45
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Matthew,
One of the features that points to an abstract object or
a hypostatic abstraction is its being known by description,
in other words, by the predicates that are attributed to it
in remote reports of some variety, or in the various stories
and theories that are spun about it, instead of being known
more concretely and directly by acquaintance. That is one
of the marks of all of the things that I mentioned before:
dormitive virtues, egos, numbers, quarks, sweetness, the
Starship Enterprise, and last not not least, unicorns.
But when you think about it, you will probably realize
that this is yet another one of those distinctions that
is more a matter of degree than an absolute dissection,
since all data of perception is to some degree remote.
This has certain implications.
Jon Awbrey
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