Something’s got to be primitive, and I can’t think of a candidate better than existence.
This is the worst answer possible, given that some quite smart people disagree on the meaning of this term, and it renders your post meaningless. Consider rereading Skill: The Map is Not the Territory for one possible answer.
If you’re going to dodge defining existence, please at least clarify your point by telling us which of these things “exist”:
a) irrational numbers
b) sets
c) postmodernism
d) the number of Langford pairings of length 100
e) negative numbers
f) quaternions
Something’s got to be primitive, and I can’t think of a candidate better than existence.
This is the worst answer possible, given that some quite smart people disagree on the meaning of this term, and it renders your post meaningless. Consider rereading Skill: The Map is Not the Territory for one possible answer.
If you’re going to dodge defining existence, please at least clarify your point by telling us which of these things “exist”:
a) irrational numbers
b) sets
c) postmodernism
d) the number of Langford pairings of length 100
e) negative numbers
f) quaternions