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fubarobfusco comments on What do professional philosophers believe, and why? - Less Wrong Discussion

31 Post author: RobbBB 01 May 2013 02:40PM

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 01 May 2013 10:40:52PM -1 points [-]

The number 3 has well-defined properties; such that I can be pretty sure that if I talk about 3 and you talk about 3, we're talking about the same sort of thing. Sources on unicorns vary rather more broadly on the properties ascribed to them.

Comment author: Juno_Watt 01 May 2013 10:54:16PM 3 points [-]

I don't see what that has to do with existence. We could cook up a well-defined fubarosco-juno unicorn.