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| Sep 4, 2023 at 17:46 | comment | added | Ted Wrigley | @Deipatrous: Well, the philosophical system you're thinking about isn't mine, and it isn't new, going back (at lest) to Aristotle in the West. I think I'm invoking the language of some 16th or 17th century philosopher whose name escapes me at the moment; maybe that's the issue. But all I'm saying is that (philosophical) language separates things that have 'existence' from 'qualities/attributes' of such things. Qualities are singe-dimensional: you can string them together to describe different aspects of an object, but you can't combine them directly. | |
| Sep 4, 2023 at 14:20 | comment | added | Deipatrous | an essence is something with an ostensible existence? You have a firm ontological system going on there, Ted, I mean you're welcome to it, but you seem awfully sure... | |
| Sep 3, 2023 at 17:07 | history | answered | Ted Wrigley | CC BY-SA 4.0 |