where what is real exists "in the world", and what is imaginary is "in the head" (note, both are part of reality). — hypericin
The fact that a ten dollar note is money is not a property of the physical paper. In 5000 years whatever nation backs it will have long since collapsed, the piece of paper will only have the historical curiosity of once having been money. No matter how well preserved it is. — hypericin
In summation, reality is for us usefully split into four categories: The Imaginary Real, The Unknown Real, The Real Imaginary, and The Purely Imaginary. When discussing things in a philosophical way, asking "what is" this or that, a good start would be, "to which category does it belong?" — hypericin
This seems to be your favorite rhetorical gun, too bad you can't seem to hit anything with it.Plato — bongo fury
Right, but why not revise what we understand of the real, rather than create new categories because they do not fit tradition? — StreetlightX
is there something at stake is excluding money from the real? — StreetlightX
It will be a historical curiosity, and interesting, not because it is a piece of paper but because it was money. What significance would it have then, or would it have had in the past, as a piece of paper? Imagine the museum exhibit: "Piece of paper." — Ciceronianus
Even more cumbersome to classify become intersubjectively held fictions, like unicorns, which are not intersubjective realities in the same sense that moneys and cultures are - yet are still actual/real as culturally present fictions: unicorns then being a real, rather than an untrue, fictional notion within the cultures we partake of — javra
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