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Anonymous Wed 13 May 17:48:29 2020 No.11667992 View Reply Original Report

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A cat is a cat because it's not a dog, and it's not a human, and it's not a book...

How can we ever hope to understand what things are when we can only explain the meaning of things through negations?

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Anonymous Wed 13 May 2020 19:47:23 No.11668344 Report

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Formal Concept Analysis I guess.

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Anonymous Wed 13 May 2020 20:17:30 No.11668411 Report

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>muh Hempel's Ravens... muh Sorites Paradox!

Define meaning. Subjective or objective?

Subjective truth is ez modo. We all use common language to facilitate mutual meaning between individuals. You can help facilitate that process along. Create terminology to describe things that are (currently) literally unspeakable and subsequently indescribable. Popularize these new terms using memes unironically. Repeat ad infinitum until you reach a threshold where everything is practically quantifiable. Even if you don't reach this point, humanity will over time - if they don't die out first. Thus 'we' will understand everything subjectively.

Ask God for help if you want objective truth, senpai.

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Anonymous Wed 13 May 2020 20:19:22 No.11668420 Report

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>mfw I'm straight because I am not OP

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Anonymous Wed 13 May 2020 20:23:06 No.11668439 Report

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>>11667992
cats have characteristics that make them cats. specific genomes, ears that are pointed in a specific way, behavioral patterns that all make the cat a cat. there are specific referents that define the class "cat" without relying solely on negation. a cat has a cat because it engages with these things that cats have in common.

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Anonymous Wed 13 May 2020 20:24:11 No.11668445 Report

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>>11667992
retarded anime posting OP is retarded.

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