> Apple is exactly arrangement of particles, it’s not abstraction over them.
No. You can do things to that apple, such as bite it, and it is still an apple, despite it now having a different set of particles. It is the abstract concept of appleness (which we define . . . somehow) applied to that arrangement of particles.
> I’m sorry but you seem to be discussing in bad faith.
No. You can do things to that apple, such as bite it, and it is still an apple, despite it now having a different set of particles. It is the abstract concept of appleness (which we define . . . somehow) applied to that arrangement of particles.
> I’m sorry but you seem to be discussing in bad faith.
Really?
> No, you don’t understand what abstraction is.