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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: chazwinchazwin Date: Jul 27, 2008 04:28
On Jul 24, 7:53 pm, John Jones aol.com> wrote:> I hope that title has rounded up the idiots who automatically believe
> such things as "telling the difference between green and red is
> genetic", and "gender differences are genetic", and similar idiocies of
> meaning.
>
> Don't know what I mean? Well, what is the difference between red and
> green? Is it beige? Pink perhaps? Think hard. Black?
> And what is the difference between male and female? an androgenous melt?
> Or maybe something like a muppet, or maybe Brains from Thunderbirds? or
> ... something else altogether? Wooo - scientific.
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> So please, don't say things like 'x is something else' or the difference
> between x and y is something else'. Just don't. Why? Because I'm a
> philosopher, and I'm sick of seeing stupid stuff here. Y'hear me fella'?
Once again, John, you take a silly difference of meaning within a
simple word and blow it all out of proportion.
To identify the difference between 4 and 2, we subtract one from the
other. BUt even this raises a confusion for the likes of you because,
althought, the absolute difference is 2, the answer could be 2 or -2
depending on the order that 4 and 2 are originally placed.
But you are missing the significance of your own words "telling the
difference" is an innate quality that we are all born with, thus it is
genetic. There is no problem and no contradiction.
You switch horse in midstream and pose a completely "different" (ho ho
ho) question. You are actually posing what would it be if red and
green were combined. This is worse that silly semantics, it is
childish nonsense..
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