Syllogisms

Doug writes (see Reading Update) "There's nowt so queer as cyberspace, as my old grandad would have said had he not died many years before its invention."

From which we posit:

Real space is discovered.
Cyber space is invented (not discovered).
ergo
Cyber space is not real space.

Or one could write

Existing space is discovered.
Cyber space is invented (not discovered).
ergo
Cyber space does not exist as space

As cyberspace is real and does exist, one conclusion I see is that it is not space. What is a definition of space? Something with four dimensions - height, length, breadth and time? If it is not space, what is it? Is the answer only formulable in boringly complex electro-mathematical symbolism? This would not satisfy me.

I suppose another conclusion could be that something invented can be real and exist. So the question is, what is the difference between something discovered and something invented? You discover something which is already there, you invent something by rearranging what is already there. So, does the problem arise out of linguistic confusion and, thus explained, vanish in a Wittgenseinian puff of smoke?


POST SCRIPTUM
Am I just making a category mistake, a la Gilbert Ryle? As I never got around to reading The Concept of Mind, I wouldn't know. Perhaps the language is too loose for logic. (Too Loose For Logic - another one of those possible titles for my autobiography).