Generally, supposing the existence of particular things prior to the experience of them. The key insight is to see that the existence of “things” is not identical to the existence of reality out of which things are carved.
Take literally anything and it’s your example: a cup, an atom, experience, causation, dancing, etc.
You can find none of these things in the territory itself, only in your understanding of it (and yet something is there in the territory for you to create a useful understanding of it, but it only becomes a thing by virtue of some perception of it).
You can find the raw material of the things in the territory, but you can’t find the template that you are using to categorise them..so says the cookie cutter theory .you are supplying the cutter, not the dough .
Generally, supposing the existence of particular things prior to the experience of them. The key insight is to see that the existence of “things” is not identical to the existence of reality out of which things are carved.
Take literally anything and it’s your example: a cup, an atom, experience, causation, dancing, etc.
You can find none of these things in the territory itself, only in your understanding of it (and yet something is there in the territory for you to create a useful understanding of it, but it only becomes a thing by virtue of some perception of it).
You can find the raw material of the things in the territory, but you can’t find the template that you are using to categorise them..so says the cookie cutter theory .you are supplying the cutter, not the dough .