(June 6, 2017 at 10:16 am)bennyboy Wrote: How sure are you that what you call discrete things aren't really so only by concept?
You guys are conversing. Conversing requires referring to something. This involves concepts. Both sides of this argument seem to be doing it but one side seems to be trying it's darnedest to articulate 'a source' of the conversing and to wonder about the nature of what the conversing has been about. But we can't use language to describe anything without doing so through the medium of language.
Those who are arguing against eliminative materialism seem to be saying that language is foisting a lie on our understanding of the true nature of the world around us. But what alternative are you guys proposing? What use are you finding for the thought that "everything is everything"? Think I'll take the understanding that comes through the separation and classification of 'parts'. I'm obviously missing something you guys find important but I'm not sure there is really anything amiss here.
