[E. Albright]

Originally posted by GavinWheeler:
Faulty logic, as there are other possibilities - it may well simply not have existed before it suddenly both came into existence and became known. To talk about an "unknown nonexistent object" is just a problem of sloppy language. Something that does not exist has no qualities.

Well. This depends. Under certain metaphysical systems, one can have non-existent objects that possess qualities. We could, for example, drag out such hideous entities as Platonic Ideals . But of course at that point we should likely fall into a bitter, sectarian squabble as to precisely what "exists" means...

[ March 19, 2004, 20:29: Message edited by: E. Albright ]