It doesn't follow from everything you have being given to you that you have no individual worth for example. These are two distinct ideas. You who prise "logic" should know that.If everything I have the world just gave me, then I have no individual worth and therefore my input is not even worthwhile, so again, why bother? — Noblosh
Yes there are definitions you make up in order to hide behind your nonexistant philosophy.There are words and there are definitions for them. Do you want me to justify language? — Noblosh
1.
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
to earn one's living.
2.
to merit as compensation, as for service; deserve:
to receive more than one has earned.
3.
to acquire through merit:
to earn a reputation for honesty.
4.
to gain as due return or profit:
Savings accounts earn interest.
5.
to bring about or cause deservedly:
His fair dealing earned our confidence.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/earn
On the contrary, determining our relation(s) with the world is at the core of assessing depression. — Noblosh
Owing implies an obligation to reciprocate — Noblosh
Then why do it?Owing implies an obligation to reciprocate — Noblosh
Owing to the categorical stupidity of this declaration, I will not be attempting to engage with it. — unenlightened
verb (used with object), owed, owing.
1.
to be under obligation to pay or repay:
to owe money to the bank; to owe the bank interest on a mortgage.
2.
to be in debt to:
He says he doesn't owe anybody.
3.
to be indebted (to) as the cause or source of:
to owe one's fame to good fortune.
4.
to have or bear (a feeling or attitude) toward someone or something:
to owe gratitude to one's rescuers
When you have nothing valuable to say, please don't. — Noblosh
That's just a wild claim and so is this:It's crystal clear that you're making absolutely no effort to engage in discussion — Agustino
Which is continued from yet another such claim:I had something valuable — unenlightened
Also cherrypicking and nitpicking don't make for strong arguments but silly ones:Owing to the categorical stupidity of this declaration — unenlightened
From the same dictionary:Take a look at 3. (from dictionary .com)
To take their example, one might owe one's fame to good fortune, but one does not have either the obligation or the means to repay it. — unenlightened
Agustino's comments:indebted: committed or obligated to repay a monetary loan; obligated for favors or kindness received
you didn't create yourself nor are you responsible entirely for who you are - so you have a duty to the world (which gave you everything) — Agustino
But one can't have a duty to good fortune, in fact the context in which the example is used as a phrase is when its subject is precisely deem not worthy which just strengthens my argument that:The world owes you nothing because it has already given you everything. — Agustino
So we were not using a figurative variant for to owe that means tracing the source of but the literal one.If everything I have the world just gave me, then I have no individual worth and therefore my input is not even worthwhile — Noblosh
My question, though, is as to whether truth just in itself is somehow valuable, and not merely for practical reasons. — John
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