wedrifid comments on The Graviton as Aether - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 07 March 2010 09:06:26AM 0 points [-]

the external world, if there is one, isn't made up of concepts

... well, maybe...

Comment author: Jack 07 March 2010 09:20:33PM 0 points [-]

Well I don't know if "the external world is made of concepts" is a meaningful thing to say. It strikes me as a kind of category error. But yes, I can always be wrong. I actually had a hedge in there original but took it out for stylistic reasons since it was already a parenthetical.

Comment author: wedrifid 08 March 2010 02:09:26AM 0 points [-]

Well I don't know if "the external world is made of concepts" is a meaningful thing to say.

It probably depends on what we mean by 'concept'. The laws of physics can probably be described as concepts and if we knew all the laws of physics the concepts would then be quite likely to include the entire universe as artifacts. But yes, parenthetical to the extreme.