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Take a sand castle. The sand clearly exists here and now, as do the bonds holding it together. But I see no reason to presume some (undetectable) layer of reality in which the castle would really exist in the same sense the sand does. The castle is just our rolled-up perception of how the bonded sand happens to behave until the tide returns.


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