(March 12, 2015 at 9:08 am)ChadWooters Wrote: I know how much you hate it when I put words in your mouth, so why would you do that to me? I said nothing about magic.
No, that was me teasing you, perhaps pointing out that all the things you baselessly assert to have a pull on reality are as insubstantial as, yes, magic. It's a comparison, not a direct quote.
Quote:Is the 'commonality' between particular things real or is it merely something in the intellect? For example, when you refer to apples is the concept of apple something objectively apparent to anyone or is it subjective depending on personal opinions about what an apple is?
When I refer to an apple, I am referring to a particular object in reality, possessed of a set of characteristics unique to that object, that we have chosen to call an apple. Like all language this is a collaborative definition, but it works for ease of communication, and this is why we have a common lexicon. There is nothing subjective about the set of traits that an apple possesses, just the label we chose to place upon them; if we decided to call apples shark testicles, they would still possess those traits, and could be recognized by them. It'd just take so much effort to replace the one word with the other that it'd hardly be worth it.
But apples aren't concepts, they're real things that exist objectively. Only the word is a concept, and that's hardly a controversial thing, is it? I mean, all language is conceptual.
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