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| The perfect island is one where if say you had one palm tree and palm trees are good you could add another and it would be better. If this worked then you could keep on adding them but you would never reach the perfect island as you could keep on adding them forever more. |
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An analytic statement is a statement which it is ridiculous and impossible to think is false.
For example: a triangle has three sides and the angles add up 180 degrees because it is ridiculous to think of a triangle any other way. |
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| A synthetic statement is a statement in which the statement's truth or falsity depends on evidnence which is to be collected. The truth of falsity of this statement depends on evidence one collects. |
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A predicate is something that an object has like a quality or a property.
For example, the concept of a triangle is that it has 3 sides and 3 internal angles adding up to 180 degrees. |
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Refers to something which has to be the way it is and cannot be different whatever the circumstances.
For example we NEED air to breath. |
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Something which is not necessary, which depends on something else for existence.
For example, a bird table. It needs us human beings to put it together and form it from the wood. |
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Is existence greater in reality or imagniation?
It is a hard thing to say because we can imagine things to be greater than they would be in reality. |
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