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Monday, 9 November 2020
Everything in the world has a location in space and a position in time. That ought to be a tautology, but then abstract ideas of various kinds come up as well as thoughts as events in experience aside from their abstract content. Abstract ideas are either general terms which embrace an indefinite collection of concrete instances, so in that sense they stand and fall with worldly things, or else they are pure abstractions like numbers. Pure abstractions are identified with the thinking of them and as such they belong to the same instance as thoughts. Where is a thought? Whenever you think a thought you locate it in the same place as you locate your mind, they are as if they are inscriptions in the mind. So where is the mind? You commonly, lazily take it to be in your head, but this is something of a mirage. Where it is in the appearing of what appears is outside of anything that appears. Hence the mind is outside of time and space.
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