I don’t embrace Trope Theory itself, but I believe it’s a good step. In it’s failings it displays that this is a word game. We’re fighting an uphill battle against an expanded definition. There was a time in the past where the culinary construct now called ‘sandwich’ had one particular. (‘Called’ is important; we need to start at the moment the term was joined to the object, not the first event of the object we would retroactively apply the label to.) Since then, every particular which had ‘enough’ shared traits has welcomed itself into the definition, in turn dragging in other traits which then expands the possible definitions. Overall we’re not revealing anything universal, we’re just doing taxonomy. This whole problem goes away if we just agree to consider sandwiches phenomenological; in the same mechanical category as the word “fire”
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2 weeks ago | 0
Though lean towards trope nominalism too, best I can describe it is as a preponderance of similarities. Which in turn runs afoul of the how much straw makes a heap issue
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I fall in nominalist side. I like Bennie's take and his point about Ampliation being an issue- what I can a donkey now when I see two donkeys, applies to all past present and future donkeys. Even though in future, a mule may be incorporated into "donkey" category, that would simply be a linguistic change. While essential predicates grasped through resemblances do have some remain with language, it's not a tight relation.
4 years ago | 0
È molto interessante quello che ho imparato ultimamente nsul tuo discorso molto importante. 😊
2 years ago | 0
Hello, please review the old 1992 novel Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson. I think you might be interested in the memetic weapon named "Asherah" in the book (central element of the main plot and ending).
4 years ago | 0
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Which answer to the problem of universals best describes your own position? (See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE4mX... )
(Trying out this newfangled YouTube poll feature.)
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