Thread: All Things are Imaginary

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

So ideas are real, essentially, if we conceptualise them, in one sense?

Heh, if you don't conceptualize it, I don't think it's an idea. But yes, I'm saying that to dismiss the "imaginary" obscures the nature of things just as much as clinging to a list of cherished beliefs. Those things we typically consider real or concrete are just as imaginary. It's easier to see in the case of human artifacts--machines, buildings and art are, after all, the products of ideas, and clearly both support and depend upon the ideas that go into them. Mountains, rivers, our selves and each other are, however, equally imaginary, equally dependent upon thought for their existence. Independent of senses, observation and conceptualization, there are no things, no particulars.