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0 pointsjheriko10y ago0 comments

is identity even real? such thinking can be construed as a 'reductio ad absurdum' argument that it is not...

how can we even tell if it is a concrete concept? its very poorly defined to begin with too...

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I'd guess it's about as real as most other concepts we use - fuzzy at the borders and breaking down when you focus on them too hard. It's like asking when a chair stops being a chair - when it has 3 legs? 2 legs? When it's angled 45 degrees? 30 degrees? Etc.

I suspect that identity is just another way of grouping things by properties, in this case including sharing spatial and temporal history - I am the same I was 10 minutes ago, because I'm made mostly of what I was made 10 minutes ago, and I moved somewhat continuously through space, etc.

jherikoOP10y ago

yeah, it falls out of how the brain functions i think... there are a bunch of classifiers in there, and its not always easy to map what they do to reasoning. there are loads of fuzzy concepts like this with day-to-day utility which are very difficult to define accurately in a way that unambiguously communicates intent to another person.

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is identity even real? such thinking can be construed as a 'reductio ad absurdum' argument that it is not...

how can we even tell if it is a concrete concept? its very poorly defined to begin with too...

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