Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Being and Doing

A philosophical question: which is first, being or doing? If you say "being", then you have a problem, because nothing can exist without doing (affecting something else). Byt if you saying "doing", then you have a problem, because how can something act (affect other entities) without existing?

The way we experience the world around us however, is characterized by doing preceding being. We experience actions and then conclude that other things exist. So we infer existence from actions.

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