(October 31, 2021 at 8:28 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(October 31, 2021 at 6:53 pm)Belacqua Wrote: I'm guessing you don't like certain of the conclusions that Aristotle and Thomas draw concerning what the human form consists of.
How many wrong guesses are you allowed?
Belacqua's examples are perfectly sound but the stakes are pretty low for pots and chairs. Does it mean something to be human as opposed to a mixture of carbon, water and trace elements? If humanity is a convenient fiction then so are rights, values, and intelligence. Mereological nihilism fails, not because of those very real defeciencies, but because it is self-defeating. If there arent things then words mean nothing. IMHO that is not a serious position.
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