RE: virus: Parmenides and the problem of abstract and concrete.

From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Sat Mar 27 2004 - 14:03:57 MST

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    Eva-Lise Carlstrom
    Sent: 27 March 2004 09:57 PM

    An abstract increases at the expense of other
    abstracts. "Love", for instance, could be said to
    increase at the expense of "hate", "rejection", or
    "disgust". This thus does not seem like a good test
    for abstractness to me, since you'd have to already
    have determined whether the things it's at the cost of
    are themselves abstracts.

    [Blunderov]Surely not? If I have another child does it mean that my love
    for any others becomes diminished? Or that my hate for, say,
    infomercials is reduced?

    (True, I'm clinging to my premise that information is abstract.)

    Best Regards 

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