Do You Believe That the Earth Has Existed for Many Years Past?

"I have assumed that there is some meaning, which is the ordinary or popular meaning of such expressions as the earth has existed for many years past," he writes. "This, I am afraid, is an assumption which some philosophers are capable of disputing." He goes on with a lot of so and so and so that I don't, or at least I think it's extremely doubtful", says Hegel. But you know, it's British people trying to interpret 'internalism' - the idea that all properties that something has including relational properties are actually internal.