#distinctions

[philosophybits]

Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

#philosophy #quotes #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #The House of the Dead #reality #abstraction #abstract #idealism #realism #distinctions #language

[thirdity]

Peace is not the opposite of war any more than death is the opposite of life. The poverty of language, which is to say the poverty of man’s imagination or the poverty of his inner life, has created an ambivalence which is absolutely false. I am talking of course of the peace which passeth all understanding. There is no other kind. The peace which most of us know is merely a cessation of hostilities, a truce, an interregnum, a lull, a respite, which is negative. The peace of the heart is positive and invincible, demanding no conditions, requiring no protection. It just is. If it is a victory it is a peculiar one because it is based entirely on surrender, a voluntary surrender, to be sure.

Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi

#peace #war #surrender #distinctions #language #awareness #quotes #Miller #Henry Miller #The Colossus of Maroussi

[philosophybitmaps]

#philosophy #quotes #Ludwig Wittgenstein #Tractatus Logico Philosophicus #Wittgenstein #clarification #distinctions #understanding #knowledge

[joenicassio]

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[anaxerneas]

Imaginative variation and eidetic intuition are related to making distinctions. They make up a process that is far more complex and mysterious than Husserl's rather summary descriptions of it would suggest. It is a process, furthermore, that is carried on by all writers when they perform what we call thought experiments in order to bring out what one would call conceptual necessities if one were more or less nominalistic in taste, or essential necessities if one were a realist. What eidetic intuitions do is to bring out distinctions in all their necessity, and to bring out, consequently, the identities that are the other side of distinctions.

Robert Sokolowski, "Making Distinctions"

#robert sokolowski #distinctions #essences

[seveneyesoup]

#TO CLARIFY ON THE SECOND POINT: VAMPIRES *HAVE* A REPRODUCTION METHOD THAT IS NOT SEX-BASED #THAT IS THE MAJOR POINT OF THAT ONE. THAT VAMP REPRODUCTION IS BASED ON CONVERTING INTO UNDEAD AND NOT PREGNANCY #what i think i keep coming back to is that a vampire is like. a form of pathogen or perhaps parasite #is the individual vampire meaningfully distinct from that? maybe #sort of a made up question #but that’s not a mammal #so neither is a vampire #but also like. a human is a mammal #this question sponsored by my friend who said she was done keeping mammals bc ‘they have so much fluid in them’ #and my thought that a vampire Wouldn’t #not a lot of fluids. happening there

[poisned]

The duality of man

Here's a finished version of the reactions. Do with them what you will lmao

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[2thinktalk]

Golf and Basketball

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#ANWA #basketball #College Women Basketball #differences #distinctions #Final Four #golf #Iowa vs Connecticut game #NCAA Women #parallels #similarities

[writerystuff]

JUST MY OPINIONS

There was some pushback on the previous post. Yes, I know that language is always changing, and change is growth, and so on. And I have no trouble, for example, with "contact" as a verb (this was once a no-no) because we don't have a single-word alternative that is non-specific (specific: phone, write, email...)

But I stand by two opinions. First,

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

I don't share this attitude, because communication is impossible if people don't understand each other, and they can't understand each other if they don't share the same definitions of the words they use.

Second, I have a lot of trouble with the loss of distinctions that occurs when two words with separate meanings become interchangeable: swath and swathe, to damp and to dampen, disinterested and uninterested, lend and loan, hone and home, staunch and stanch.

Distinctions enable precision in writing and in comprehension. I'm for precision and clarity.

#writers #writing #words #word meanings #distinctions #precision #clarity #these are my opinions so the fact that you don't agree with them doesn't make them wrong

[philosophybits]

There is no end to the weighing of things, no stop to time, no constancy to the division of lots, no fixed rule to beginning and end. Therefore great wisdom observes both far and near, and for that reason, it recognizes small without considering it paltry, recognizes large without considering it unwieldy, for it knows that there is no end to the weighing of things. It has a clear understanding of past and present, and for that reason, it spends a long time without finding it tedious, a short time without fretting at its shortness, for it knows that time has no end. It perceives the nature of fullness and emptiness, and for that reason, it does not delight if it acquires something or worry if it loses it, for it knows that there is no constancy to the division of lots.

Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 17)

#philosophy #quotes #Zhuangzi #The Complete Works of Zhuangzi #judgment #measurement #distinctions #awareness #wisdom #daoism

[thirdity]

Identities are, by their nature, reductive. (You do not need an identity to become yourself; you need an identity to become like someone else.) Without identities, yes, language would be impossible (because categories would not be possible, and language requires categories). Still, in terms of subjects, identity remains a highly problematic sort of reduction and cultural imposition.

Samuel R. Delany, "Coming / Out"

#identity #distinctions #self #other #language #culture #quotes #Delany #Samuel R. Delany #Coming / Out

[philosophybitmaps]

“A note exists between two notes of music, between two facts exists a fact, between two grains of sand no matter how close together there exists an interval of space...” – Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

#philosophy #quotes #Clarice Lispector #The Passion According to G.H. #Lispector #distinctions #differences #facts #space #time #infinite

[joenicassio]

I am more than a teacher. I am an awakener.

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[destinationtoast]

My grandmother is Japanese and really likes to give gifts. Often those gifts are Japanese desserts or other food, but sometimes she just slips me cash, folded up inside a tiny, beautiful envelope. But she likes to pretend she's not giving me money, so when possible, she'll hide it somewhere that I will find later.

Today I spent the afternoon with her doing chores and tech support, and she clearly felt this warranted a significant gift in return (no matter that I enjoyed myself). But she forgot to slip something into my pocket or bag before I left, so instead she rushed outside as I was starting my car, making the old-school "roll down the window" gesture. Once I complied, she was forced to acknowledge she was handing me money, but she also tried to minimize the gesture.

The result was that she said, "Thank you, dear! I just wanted you to be able to... to buy yourself a hamburger," and then handed me a darling little envelope that turned out to contain $100. And all I could think was:

#we live in california and even here that's a lot of hamburger #do kids these days still know the old signal for #roll down the window #? #do they still use it? #it does have the advantage of being distinctive #in a way that holding down an imaginary button does not #toasty life #the value of a hamburger #memes #it's one banana michael #op #50 #100 #500 #1K #5K #10K

[dougielombax]

Some fuckers have NO understanding of the difference between volunteers and mercenaries.

Stupid animals!

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #volunteering #fuck mercenaries #semantics #words #distinctions

[bsidibe]

Les personnalités de l'industrie musicale malienne à la cérémonie de Remise des Renouveau Fôly Awards 2022

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