Critical Thinking & Writing: Recap & HW #4

On Sunday we sorted all different kinds of things into “exists” and “doesn’t exist”
categories, and we sorted statements about them into “true” and “false.” Both charts are post
online. Through this activity, we talked about the questions:

*What kinds of things exist?
*How can we make true statements about things that don’t exist?
*What makes a statement about something true? (Some are definitionally true,some are true about reality, some are true about fictional universes.)
*Do non-physical things exist? What about the color red? What about numbers?

For the homework, write a short essay (about three paragraphs) answering any one of the above questions. Feel free to draw on the examples we discussed in class or make up your own.