Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Relations and properties

Properties are connected to the real world while relations are mental. TV and it's remote has a relationship this is pure mental. A remote emits infrared signals when buttons are pressed-this is a property, this is physical, this is connected to real world. But it being a remote of the TV is a mental process. A marble has physical properties like it is made from glass, it may have colours. But the concept of two marbles in a box is mental.
However, property glass or color are also relations. Our minds have the concept of glass from lot of experiences we had about the physical world.It is the same with color. Color and glass are concepts formed by multiple relations in the brain. Two is also a concept in our brain.In the end all properties are concepts of brain. So physical properties are all concepts of brain? So how to differentiate the physical world and concepts of brain? So what is real and what is mental? Is nothing real? Is reality inside our brain and nothing is real - idealist.

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