Bestowed Existence :: essays research papers

<a href="http//www.geocities.com/vaksam/">Sam Vaknins Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and unconnected Affairs Web SitesKnives and forks are objects external to us. They have an objective - or at least an inter inherent - founding. Presumably, they will be there even if no one watches or uses them ever again. We raft safely call them " design Entities". Our emotions and thoughts can be communicated - but they are NOT the communication itself or its contents. They are "Subjective Entities", internal, dependent upon the reality of one observer - us. tho what about numbers? The number one, for instance, has no objective, observer-independent status. I am not referring to the number one as adjective, as in "one orchard apple tree". I am referring to it as a home-alone entity. As an entity it seems to stand alone in some way (its out there) - and be subjective in other ways (dependent upon observers). Numbers belong to a tercet category "B estowed Entities". These are entities whose existence is bestowed upon them by social agreement amid conscious agents. But this definition is so wide and all embrace that it might be considered useless. Religion and money are two examples of entities which owe their existence to a social agreement mingled with conscious entities - until now they dont strike us as universal and out there (objective) as numbers do. Indeed, this distinction is pertinent and our definition should be refined accordingly. We mustiness distinguish "Social Entities" (like money or religion) from "Bestowed Entities". The latter - in unappeasable contrast to the former - are not universal, they re dependent on the society, culture and period that gave them birth. Not so with numbers. Numbers are Platonic ideas which come into existence through an act of conscious agreement between ALL the agents capable of reaching such an agreement. While conscious agents can argue about the value of money (read, about its existence) and about the existence of God - no rational, conscious agent can have an bank line regarding the number one. Apparently, the bestowed entity category seems to free itself from the eternal dichotomy of internal versus external. It is both(prenominal) and comfortably so. But this is only an illusion. The dichotomy does persist. The bestowed entity is internal to the group of respond conscious-rational agents - but it is external to any single agent (individual). In other words, a group of rational conscious agents is certain to bestow existence on the number one.