Saturday, January 16, 2010

"The possiblility of unperceived existence"

A well-known philosophical question goes like this: "If a tree fell in a forest, and no one heard it, did it fall?" That is where the exression: "The possibility of unperceived existence" comes from. From Grey's Ellegy : "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air"

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