(February 11, 2025 at 1:57 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(February 11, 2025 at 1:01 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Of course they describe different things. A home isn’t necessarily a house.
Obviously; but in this conversation they are different ways of describing the same object. Your point that they can also describe different objects makes my point more salient. They aren't simple different names for the same thing, like soda vs pop, but rather entirely different aspects of the same object.
Tellingly, you keep using the word "object". It's easy enough to find houses that aren't homes and homes that aren't houses, so clearly you're talking about two different things.
This thing here, it's called a "rose". I pricked my finger on it, so it's pretty concrete.
This here, that's what we call "red". I can't hand you a bucket full of "red" because it's an abstract.
And this here, that's what some people call a "man-god". It's simultaneously human and divine. Don't worry about it because it doesn't exist. Not because of doubt or skepticism, but because it's been defined as a contradiction to itself.