Peter Holmes wrote:No worries, and I'm sorry if it looked like I was trying to dis you. I think the debate about whether metaphysics makes any sense at all comes from the meaning of the word 'meta-physics' - whether it makes sense to talk about things that are 'after' or 'outside' nature - ta physica.
Peter, I never felt you were dissing me. In fact, my embarrassment was not overwhelming, and I found the whole situation funny.
Thanks nevertheless for catching me on this mistake.
My explanation was true in every letter. You can check the facts: esz -- smart mind, smarts, mind, reasoning organ, in Hungarian, totel - misspelled total, Arisztid -- name of character in proverbial Hungarian jokes about the aristocracy.
-- Updated 2017 July 29th, 3:26 pm to add the following --
Togo1 wrote:
I think you're confusing two different meanings of 'dismiss', confusing ignoring the contents of the the bin with removing the bin from existance. Categorising something as unreal appears to imply that the contents of the unreal bin should be ignored, or more properly, that we shouldn't be allowed to ask questions about such things. It doesn't make the bin or its contents disappear.
Okay, I see your point now. Dismissing evidence in court or dismissing a charge means not considering it, as if it were not in existence. Dismissing a soldier or dismissing a person from a meeting means to send them out of the meeting, and they are no longer present.
My understanding of the word "dismiss" is only partly "no questions allowed" and "ought to be ignored". To me it meant to pretend, in the sense you used it, that it never has existed. Because "dismiss" means to send away, in one meaning.
But if you just "quarantine" the contents of the bin so dismissed as you have suggested, then I have to re-think my proposition, and I will or won't, according to my fancy.
So stay tuned, but only if you wish (naturally) and be prepared that I may or may not revisit the issue.