Does believing in something create its existence?
No, there is always something
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Yes, we create existence
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Universality cannot be accomplished by one person or even a lot of people believing in something; it must be common among all people to qualify, and arguably even independent of human conception. Ideological existence is different from actual existence; that the idea of a thing exists does not mean that the thing represented by the idea exists itself. At most, believing in something creates that idea of its existence but not its actual existence. Side: No, there is always something
That could easily be countered by someone else believing in it's existence. As long as someone believes it then it suits the criterion. Believing that something is absent, isn't believing something, because it's believing that there is nothing there. Nothing can not be something. Side: No, there is always something
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Naturally - just look at the world around us. It is so much a different place to the one that I grew up in post WWII Our creative thoughts and imagination have produced everything we have made and use in our world today. We now know far much more than we did in 1945, our technology and science have improved the lives of millions, all from the ideas of the minds of the people who created them Side: Yes, we create existence
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