Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Absences, Privations, Holes

  • Holes, Hosts, and Guests

    Some of you are confusing holes with 'guests.'  You have to be able distinguish them on the notional or intensional plane to be able  to identify them on the real or extensional plane should you find reasons to do so. I gave the example of a piece of Swiss cheese. It has holes in it.…

  • Are Holes Material Items?

    Here is a version of materialism: 1) All and only material things exist. My question: are there decisive (philosophically dispositive) counterexamples to (1)? I hold that (1) is very reasonably rejected. But what I want to know is whether it can be 'blown clean out of the water,' i.e., refuted beyond the shadow of any…