I agree. An idea is as real as this forum is and as real as the spell checker in MS word is. An idea is as real as a person is in a picture is real. It's as real as the text on this screen is real. It's a pattern of things that we recognize and treat as a bound unit to which we associate meaning.
These things, however, don't have intrinsic identity. They are composed entirely of things that are "not it"... They only have identity due to the organization of their components and how they interact with our perception of the world they reside in.
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