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How do you people with long hair put it up?
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RE: How do you people with long hair put it up?
(April 20, 2018 at 10:45 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: I hate it when people boil down real metaphysical problems to semantics. They usually aren't. So, believe me, I hate to say this: Identity, as a metaphysical problem is just that: a problem of semantics.

Aren't all problems problems of semantics? Even when it comes to truth itself we have to define it first.

The way I see it is... presentism is true so that greatly affects what our experience of personal identity and the self must be like. If our self in the past and future existed then that would be completely different. But I don't think the past and future exist so that really affects everything for me.

(April 20, 2018 at 10:45 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: A metaphysical position here is really dependant upon what anyone regards as self (ie what they mean when they say the word.)

Isn't that the case on all matters?

That's why my favorite fallacy to spot is the fallacy of equivocation, because people do it all the time, almost always without even realizing it. It's okay as long as you notice when people are using the same word in two different ways.

Like, it irks me when people debate free will before defining first whether they mean incompatabilist or compatabilist free will and then you have them talking at cross purposes... and they may completely agree and just they define it differently.

Semantics is important. I think it's only a problem when people go on discussing before they figure out the semantics.

EDIT: I'm really enjoying our discussion but I must be going to bed now. Super tired and it's 4.AM. Ni night Smile
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How do you people with long hair put it up? - by Silver - April 19, 2018 at 10:57 pm
RE: How do you people with long hair put it up? - by c172 - April 19, 2018 at 11:16 pm
RE: How do you people with long hair put it up? - by Edwardo Piet - April 20, 2018 at 10:51 pm

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