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Nothing can be distinguished wihtout the criteria of self to distinguish things.

2006-10-02 00:18:40 · 4 answers · asked by The Knowledge Server 1 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

Plz. read the question as:

Do the criteria of self to distinguish things vary?

2006-10-02 00:21:45 · update #1

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true. it varies in distinguishing things of self. it varies with knowledge and experience.

2006-10-02 04:53:48 · answer #1 · answered by prince47 7 · 0 0

To distinguish you need to have a distinguisher.
To have a distinguisher the distinguisher should be different from the "thing" being distinguished.

If there is no distinguisher then who will distinguish, so nothing can be distinguished.

So this distinguisher is the "criteria of self to distinghish things".
I just proved nothing can be distinguished without the criteria of self to distinguish things.

How does a distinguisher distinguish things ?
He distinguishes based on his memory+intellect (including memory of education, experiences, biases, beliefs), ego (what constitue one's ego - likes, dislikes, attitudes, what i think i am),
mind (emotions etc.).

So the criteria that define a distinguisher are memory+ intellect,
ego and mind.
They are the same for all distinguishers.

SO THE CRITERIA OF SELF ARE INVARIANTS AND ARE MUST TO DISTINGUISH THINGS.
The criteria of self to distinguish things don't vary.

2006-10-02 12:00:17 · answer #2 · answered by James 4 · 0 0

-You'd need WAY more clarification to make an intelligible question out of that statement. No one has any idea what you're trying to ask.
I *might* have the vaguest notion. Something like how does one define one's relation to external reality and thus establish a contextual framework in which to identify and define one's relationship to external stimuli, objects, people, etc. Where do -I- end and 'other' things begin. Is the human race or all life itself simply a huge super-organism reacting to itself. What distinguishes organic and inorganic, being that they're composed of the same substance. These are the kind of concepts built during infancy, and varies by culture and to some extent by personality. It's primarily sensory in nature; from the beginning we become familiar with our own sensory apparatus to the extent they become undetectable-we don't see our own eyes, smell our own nose, etc, so that which distinguishes itself from our internal aapparatus becomes the 'other' and that's how we're taught. We see things moving beyond our grasp and reach for them, hear sound from another room and move toward it, see others eating food and wish to taste for ourselves. It's later in life that we integrate these reflexive actions into a concept of the 'self' in terms of an external reality we interact with. I believe this is pretty universal. Interstingly, if it DID vary somewhat, how could you tell? Everyone agrees that an apple is red and the sky is blue, but we don't really know what others see when they look at those things, only that they've been taught to call them 'red' and 'blue'. So sadly, there may be no answer possible to your question.

2006-10-02 07:44:07 · answer #3 · answered by AmigaJoe 3 · 0 0

Nothing distinguishable here

2006-10-02 07:22:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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