fast response, i'll return in same,
> ERIN: The problem of distinguishing is categorizing something but you
> can not categorize something that is unique. Uniqueness is aspect of
> separateness in your categorization of uniqueness. I wouldn't put
> uniqueness as a result of distinguishing, I would put it as a failure to
> distinguish.
Elliot:
I think by naming something you automatically put it in a category. If
something could not be categorized in any way, was the essence of
uniqueness (IE: had no similarities to either exsistance or non-exsistance)
then, well... all things can be both distinguished from other things
and identified with other things, and if you say it cant be then your
speaking a language i cant understand. Self (what i think you mean by true
uniqueness) is the result of distinguishing from not-self. Hence, subject
and object. Thus, if self is what you mean by uniqueness, it is in fact a
reslut of distinguishing, and not a failure to distinguish.
failure is a funny word to use i think because it imples an error, when
infact both john and i think that distinguishing is infact the error. If
one did not distiguish, well, my point is uniqueness requires another
something to be compared to to be considered unique (as one refers to a
many to distinguish itself from). If one did not distinguish there would
be only One, not one in referance to many which is why it is improper to
try to term it, but just (blahhh) (that noise sums it up best i think).
This Blahhh is not unique because it cannot be compared to anything. thus
i say if distinguishing is not absolute but illusion (and it is), than
similarly the idea of uniqueness is illusion and error.
I hope i was clear enough, its a difficult thing to put in words. If you
dissagree, then i obviously dont grasp what it is you think is absolutly
unique (cant be distinguished or identified with anything else). Either
self or the Blahhh before distinguishing seem to me the only possible
runners for this position, and if thats so, than uniqueness is indeed an
error.
Elliot
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