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How can people believe "purpose" is real?


Like a carpenter makes a chair intending to sit on it but as soon as it's finished I smash him over the head with it and make a campfire out of it. So what was the "purpose" of the chair and where in it was it located?

"Need" is just a fiction. As is "should", "must", "value" and "importance".

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The key differences are that 1. a wave affects reality, not just the mind and is therefore non-fictional and 2. "purpose" didn't change inside the chair or in anyone's mind, the person hitting someone with it can easily keep "both purposes" in mind OR fumble for an item to hit someone with without knowing it's a chair beforehand.

Also, this: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000130/nest/263626706

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