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79: Bernardo Kastrup – Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics
The Sacred Speaks
Theoretic Entities Are Convenient Fictions
The only thing that can be said to truly exist is nature's behavior. It's what you see happening, not the whole theoretical entities that supposedly underlie that behavior. The insight that aristotle may have been wrong leads us to this more maturer understanding that theoretic entities are convenient fictions. They're artifects of our own way of thinking that helps us understand and predict nature. But we cannot say that they exist out there. No, let's not mix our own conceptual reasoning with reality. Because we are monkeys only. We exist since yesterday in the history of this universe.
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