Descartes triangle

[Mixcoatl]

He said that even if you took every triangle out of the universe, the properties of triangles would still exist.

They don't need an actual triangle to be true. They don't even need a mind to exist.

That's amazing to me, because in a sense, it suggests that potentiality and actuality are the same thing.

[Leo Gura]

No, you need a mind to exist and you need that Mind to imagine triangles correctly. A deluded mind will imagine a crooked triangle.

Descartes logic only works because he is the Mind imagining triangles.

Edited Monday at 12:00 PM by Leo Gura

[Nemra]

How can a property of an actual finite thing be actual outside of an actual universe or experience?

Edited Monday at 11:47 AM by Nemra

[Mixcoatl]

14 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

No, you need a mind to exist and you need that Mind to imagine triangles correctly.

I tried to imagine a triangle property written in the nothing but imagination is needed. 🤔 

I have the feeling that triangle properties are eternal but at the same time I need to imagine them.

[Leo Gura]

A raccoon's butthole is also Eternal.

Everything is Eternal, so this means little.

[Joseph Maynor]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

A raccoon's butthole is also Eternal.

Everything is Eternal, so this means little.

This is the perfect objection to Descartes lol.  

[Mixcoatl]

16 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

A raccoon's butthole is also Eternal.

Everything is Eternal, so this means little.

Of course!

A raccoon's butthole is eternal because it is an idea. Same as triangle properties.

Both need a mind to be actualized.

[Mixcoatl]

@Leo Gura what you mean when you say everything is eternal? Doesn't it break the law of impermanence?

[Leo Gura]

3 hours ago, Mixcoatl said:

@Leo Gura what you mean when you say everything is eternal? Doesn't it break the law of impermanence?

This will not make sense from your POV, but all experience is Eternal as it is happening.

When you fart, that fart is Eternal.

Eternity cuts through all time. Eternity exists at all points in time.