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>William Elliot wrote to Mark Bloss about "Existence Exists"
 >>> Mark Bloss on "Existence Exists" 
 
 MB> cannot come closer to it.
 WE> Neither of these seem as real to me as the never ending sequence of
 WE> integers: 0, 1, 2, 3, ...  These have been proclaim by another as
 WE> merely imaginary. 
 MB> 
 MB> You said they don't seem as real to you; this is only to be expected,
 MB> since you use your senses to discern integers - but actually -
 MB> integers are also imaginary - they in themselves have no substance.
 WE> Indeed, they're intellectual abstractions.  Other imaginary examples
 WE> of infinity are, of course, those divine mental distractions, that
 WE> some humans count on more than integers. 
 
 The difference in "substance", then, is in the eye of the beholder,
 and analogous to one another as well.  In point of fact, it is the
 very nature of those sequences of numbers - which give God a more
 natural substance in which to be comprehended - grasped - by the
 human consciousness.
 
... Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude
--- GEcho 1.11++TAG 2.7c
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