andy-k wrote:

Yes, a limit, a boundary. You can stand in the middle of a city and ask:
"Where's the city? All I see are buildings, cars, streets, people, etc."
This is similar to what Hume did when he engaged in the self-nihilism
that philosophers have been fawning over ever since. But it's trivial
because we can do the same thing with most other items.

If I could somehow fit and exist inside a golf ball, I'd be asking:
"Where's the golf ball? All I see are these various materials
surrounding me. There's nothing I can point to that's a golf ball." It's
the can't see the forest for the trees scenario; if you want to define
the forest you have to find its edge and follow it all the way around to
grasp how it does have a limit and thus would appear or could be
conceived to be a thing or entity from outside itself (overhead from a
distance).

posted by Ecce

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