Ha, I was just talking about something similar with a mate today - we figured the worst torture would be taking something you enjoyed and turning it a...
This isn't up for debate. Amateur etymology is no substitute for 2000 years of philosophical tradition because you want to push a moonshine philosophy...
To be fair, the distinction between 'being' and 'existence' is a well founded one that has its roots in Aquinas and alot of medieval Christian philoso...
Those options are not particularly specific to the situation. Two far more relevant ones might be that both the Saudis and the Isrealis, for their own...
Can you please stop this. No one in philosophy limits the use of 'beings' to humans. This is just your idiosyncratic rubbish that no one but you spout...
The OP seems to me to be a particularly bad idea. Part of the excitement of learning is to learn what you do not know - to understand one's own ignora...
No seriously - if someone says: "describe this dog to me", and you reply "it's a dog", there are a few possibilities - you misheard the question; you ...
In what English class did you learn that "x=x" or "it is itself" counts as a description of something, and not earn you a detention for being cheeky? ...
A distinction of provisional use, tends to be more obfuscating than clarifying, has led hundreds and thousands of people astray for the most part. Lik...
Yeah, exactly. That's why the idea self-identity speaks to anything at all without further specification is so silly. That it has some kind of univoca...
See. This is what happens when one hews to the principle of identity as some kind of metaphysical postulate. You have to leave the world behind. Relig...
Totally. Insofar as one is setting out a grammar for logic, this makes total sense. But this speaks to a certain use of language - it certainly doesn'...
Except this is totally wrong. An apple is an apple. It is also a fruit. That something is itself says nothing. It is semantically empty. As are all ta...
If identity is 'representitive of distinction' then I simply don't know what you are talking about. Once words stand for their opposites, there are no...
Again: what does this mean? Babies certainly develop a sense of self, but an 'awareness that they are themselves'? What else would they be? What else ...
Math quite clearly employs the principle of identity in some regards. But to move from that to instilling it as some kind of anthrogenic principle - o...
One has to wonder what this could possibly mean. Abstracted from the idle speculations of bad philosophy, if one were to be asked in conversion: "do y...
End of year reading summary! 42 books, which is a little less than last year, but was definitely slowed down by the Cavell readings - The Claim of Rea...
“A thing is identical with itself.” - There is no finer example of a useless sentence, which nevertheless is connected with a certain play of the imag...
This was not about having the skills to adapt or not. Orange deliberately placed staff in roles they were not suited or trained for, assigned tasks an...
Because laying them off would have required severance payouts. It was more economical to terrorize their employees into leaving than offering them red...
Great, because that's not what I claimed. Rather, the issue has to do with the specificities of language, and the total lack of any plausable account ...
My original post was reported by some sook and subsequently edited, so yeah, it's odd. Basically, I'm not here to explain basic debates in linguistics...
I had a more, er, robust response, but apparently telling you to educate yourself was not considered kosher. In any case, if your 'feelings' are what ...
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