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> Look closely enough and there is no essential difference between genetics and other causative factors. How is this any different from saying "all is one, sep
by colordrops 5y ago
> Look closely enough and there is no essential difference between genetics and other causative factors.
How is this any different from saying "all is one, separateness is an illusion"?
- tnzm 5y agoArbitrarily.
- colordrops 5y agoI'm not fluent in e-prime, sorry.
- tnzm 5y agoSaying "there is no essential difference between genetics and other causative factors" is arbitrarily different from saying "all is one, separateness is an illusion". That is, it differs in connotations and not in the essential content of the statement. Which is exactly what you said, except that you chose to ignore that connotations conduct meaning, when you asked your rhetorical question. This is not e-prime, it is a plain old adverb answering the question "how?" like adverbs normally do.
- colordrops 5y agoIt's not arbitrary. "Other causative factors" is boundless.
- tnzm 5y agoYou now seem to be talking about something else entirely.
- colordrops 5y agoNo, I'm not. Can you be more precise in what you mean by "causative factors"? Without further context, and based on my understanding of the world, virtually anything internal or external to a person could cause them to be more or less skilled at something. It contains everything, and so seems that your statement could be interpreted that genetics and everything else in existence are one in the same.
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoWhat sprang to my mind when I read the arbitrarily response is that you have equally little control over the genes you’re born with as you do the place, time, family, society, economy, technology, and culture you’re born in to.
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoAlso, I meant to add: > How is this any different from saying "all is one, separateness is an illusion"? > It's not arbitrary. "Other causative factors" is boundless. These are distinctly different lines on inquiry. One is an inquiry to in the illusory nature of separateness, the other is an inquire in to the boundless nature of causative factors.
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- tnzm 5y agoWow, thanks! That's a wonderfully succinct way of putting it.
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoI’m constantly shocked and entertained by the lack of internal-consistency of what people say and write. When we don’t even understand ourselves what hope is there we will understand other people? It’s definitely an ongoing process anyway.