Comment on “That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, & Computer CultureparentComments−drewcoo3yA river is made up of different water molecules every day, yet it's the same river over millennia.Heraclitus would like a word with you.−didericis3yAnd Parmenides would like a word with you.It’s amazing to me people agree on definitions for anything, given people have been having the same basic abstract arguments for what makes thing A thing A and distinct from thing B for thousands of years.−svara3yMy argument was in some sense more shallow, I just made a point about how we talk about things.You can open a map and find that a river has a name, that's true no matter your stance on what it "really is".
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Heraclitus would like a word with you.
And Parmenides would like a word with you.
It’s amazing to me people agree on definitions for anything, given people have been having the same basic abstract arguments for what makes thing A thing A and distinct from thing B for thousands of years.
My argument was in some sense more shallow, I just made a point about how we talk about things.
You can open a map and find that a river has a name, that's true no matter your stance on what it "really is".