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The fact that dogs can play with hammers does not imply that they are real. Dogs can play with hammers in cartoons, and no-one would think that dogs a...

Your sentence implies the following argument: X created the universe. Therefore I should not judge X. Clearly not a valid argument.

It’s both. The fact that it’s used as equipment does not prevent it being an object. If it were not an object, my dog could not sniff it, pick it up i...

Since you prefer ‘using‘ to ‘thinking of’, I will rephrase, though it makes no significant difference. ‘There would be no hammer’ is badly phrased. It...

I’m agnostic about an afterlife, and as a result my feelings about death are very variable, because I simply don’t know whether anything comes afterwa...

A hammer is a physical object. The fact that we think of a hammer as a tool has no effect on the hammer, it’s a physical object whether we think of it...

Certainly there are quantitative properties. A 2-legged man has the quantitative property of having 2 legs, while a legless man has the quantitative p...

Yes. “Not anything” means the absence of all things that could exist. (And also, to be exhaustive, of all things that could not exist, but of course t...