/lit/ - Literature

>>7363219
you can't seriously expect us to post philosophy threads there?
it's a bunch of fucking children from /pol/, philosophy thread have gotten exponentially worse since we've had to post them in that fucking shit hole.

>>7363197
imo things exist in the world before you think about them, and the things that you think of without them existing in the world, exist in the mind as a result of those things which exist in the world.
“existence” typically implies /in the world/. “conceivable” is used to imply that something exists in the mind.
>does Q exist before you conceive of it, or does conceiving of it cause it to exist.
Neither.
Things can exist, can be conceivable and exist, can be conceivable but not exist, and can be inconceivable.
The issue here is that conceivability is limited by education. Perhaps fairies and centaurs are visually conceivable but biologically impossible. Likewise we can picture a square without corners but we know this image contradicts the mathematical definition of a square. In this sense, a square without corners is conceivable visually but not mathematically.
As a result I’m not sure if things can exist and not be conceivable.
Thoughts?