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sibelian

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21. "...there is no such thing as a legitimate structural identity..."
Sun Mar 31, 2013, 05:01 AM
Mar 2013

Ahhhh. But is that claim falsifiable?
Can you restate that in English? OffWithTheirHeads Mar 2013 #1
I feel this post is othering me kenny blankenship Mar 2013 #2
did you? arely staircase Mar 2013 #4
WTF? No WTF? option? n/t eridani Mar 2013 #3
i never use wtf. why? arely staircase Mar 2013 #10
Deep eridani Mar 2013 #12
+1 BainsBane Mar 2013 #18
other Kali Mar 2013 #5
That was rather a Random Thought tkmorris Mar 2013 #6
Both!!! We don't *do* innocuousness at DU, but we should! freshwest Mar 2013 #7
innocuousness is like arely staircase Mar 2013 #11
To posit such an ontological dichotomy as a phenomenological "real" may advance petronius Mar 2013 #8
perhaps it is reductionist arely staircase Mar 2013 #9
totally disagree Kalidurga Mar 2013 #13
a straw identity! arely staircase Mar 2013 #14
awesome Kalidurga Mar 2013 #17
and you seem to have been one of the few to "get" the whole thing arely staircase Mar 2013 #34
"...there is no such thing as a legitimate structural identity..." sibelian Mar 2013 #21
No more falsifiable than claim there are no pink unicorns... Kalidurga Mar 2013 #23
But the credibility of that analogous claim sibelian Mar 2013 #24
Actually, there is - BUT it's impossible for anyone jazzimov Mar 2013 #22
Outing OPs--Textual objectivism and subcultural narrative eridani Mar 2013 #15
like i tell my kids everyday arely staircase Mar 2013 #16
Did the philosophy group Le Taz Hot Mar 2013 #19
Yes. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #29
Disagree. They are exact opposites. jazzimov Mar 2013 #20
word salad. lofty word salad, but still word salad. Orwell would have cali Mar 2013 #25
it isn't condescending arely staircase Mar 2013 #26
what does Orwell know? Uh, as anyone who's actually read his essays and novels cali Mar 2013 #30
this just gets better and better arely staircase Mar 2013 #32
I would say "doubtful virtue of vacuousness", but otherwise, yeah. nt bemildred Mar 2013 #27
these words don't mean anything datasuspect Mar 2013 #28
yes, yes and no eom arely staircase Mar 2013 #33
The fragmentation of realism is nearly obtuse in its morphology. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #31
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