RE: Short essay on dualism, idealism, & materialism as concerns Q: What is a table?
February 25, 2017 at 11:56 am
(February 25, 2017 at 10:43 am)Mudhammam Wrote:(February 25, 2017 at 3:52 am)bennyboy Wrote: Is this something you've done as a TA for a uni class or something? It's a very nice review!Not as a TA but just an assignment we were all given in an undergraduate class, Theories of Reality. It's one of two philosophy essays that I have to complete over the next couple of weeks, and well, when I put so much energy into something (I like writing these sorts of papers) I cannot help but want to share it with my philosophically-inclined peers! Thank you for the very generous compliment!
(February 25, 2017 at 5:03 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'Short'?Ah! Don't tell me that you think my essay partakes of the 'Form' of 'Large-ness!'
Boru
No, I wouldn't say 'Large-ness', exactly. More a sort of textual diarrhea. The philosophical 'table-ness' of a particular object is a subject of nil interest to any sensible person. Everyone knows what a table is, what is meant by the concept. Your long-winded exercise in pointlessness doesn't achieve anything, just a sort of mental masturbation on a subject with no content.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
