Analysis of how the word mountain is used? — Marchesk
Well, it's a problem with how we're talking about the world and/or ourselves. Typically, I fix such problems by changing how I talk. — creativesoul
Well, it's a problem with how we're talking about the world and/or ourselves. Typically, I fix such problems by changing how I talk.
— creativesoul
One way would be to stop using the word mountain. — Marchesk
You realise this is special pleading: the objects matter, rocks, snow and dirt are equally things we have named. If there is a problem with the things we call mountains existing before we name them, the same would be true of matter, rocks, snow and dirt. — TheWillowOfDarkness
Stop using it to do things we cannot do with it. — creativesoul
Whoops, I apologize. That was meant for Wayfarer — PessimisticIdealism
Nope, that's also special pleading: fundamental particles and patterns are just as much things we name as mountains. — TheWillowOfDarkness
It's an issue of whether nature is the way we conceptualize it to be. — Marchesk
The problem with real mountains as objects is where to draw the line on what constitutes a mountain versus a hill or some other formation. — Marchesk
Stop using it to do things we cannot do with it.
— creativesoul
You mean don't use mountains when doing philosophy? — Marchesk
Ordinary objects and fundamental particles are on the same level, each is a thing we may describe. Fundamental particles are really just another ordinary object. — TheWillowOfDarkness
Correct. More than one substance is incoherent. :clap: — TheWillowOfDarkness
One cannot have two forms of explanation. — TheWillowOfDarkness
My Spinozisic intentions must not have been clear enough...
Pluarity is impossible because we are dealing with explanation. One cannot have two forms of explanation. If something is explained, true, etc., it is so in the same sense: the thing in question has been accounted for. — TheWillowOfDarkness
Pluarity is impossible because we are dealing with explanation. One cannot have two forms of explanation. If something is explained, true, etc., it is so in the same sense: the thing in question has been accounted for. — TheWillowOfDarkness
I think what could be agreed upon is that the world we see is an appearance, an image of something more fundamental than the image, and that this image depends on us. — leo
And the world... — creativesoul
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