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That's not obvious. - they are material objects - they are concepts I understand - they are sequences of letters - they are English words - ... Not sure w
by prmph 1y ago
That's not obvious.
- they are material objects
- they are concepts I understand
- they are sequences of letters
- they are English words
- ...
Not sure why oneness is privileged as what they have in common, and their oneness is meaningless by itself. Oneness is a property that is only meaningful in relation to other concepts of objects.
- jjgreen 1y agoA rock is not physically a material object, it is a region of space where the electrons, protons and neutrons are differently arranged, and that region is fuzzy, difficult to determine; but as physical beings, as monkeys, we recognise its oneness, that's necessary for our survival in this physical world, we see this blurred outline of a rock, we feel it's weight in our hand, we observe its practical difference from two rocks. Just as we recognise twoness in a pair of rocks, fish, apples, threeness in a triple of parrots, of carrots, we abstract those out into 1, 2, 3, ...