Message from @Existence is identity

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2018-11-14 23:15:53 UTC  

Where are you getting that?

2018-11-14 23:16:30 UTC  

From Ayn Rand

2018-11-14 23:17:44 UTC  

Okay, well if you want to adjust the definition of concept to fit in Ayn Rand's shit then go ahead. There's no reason to completely change the meaning of concept

2018-11-14 23:20:53 UTC  

I dont know where she derived the definitions or if she changed it

2018-11-14 23:22:02 UTC  

Well just compare it to the standard definition of "concept". According to the general definition, everything is a concept

2018-11-14 23:22:22 UTC  

Here

2018-11-14 23:23:02 UTC  
2018-11-14 23:25:46 UTC  

Okay if you want to use this rando definition of concept, we can. What do you hope to achieve with this redefinition?

2018-11-14 23:28:19 UTC  

@DrWittMDPhD Its more broken down and fits her philosophy more and its how she broke down a man thinking and how the fundamentals

2018-11-14 23:28:45 UTC  

Plus its more clearly defined

2018-11-14 23:29:22 UTC  

Okay I grant you that. She's splitting the word so it means a very specific thing, but what do you want to do with that? We agree on the terms now. So what are we using Ayn Rand's definition for?

2018-11-14 23:29:56 UTC  

If we look back on the original topic of "do rights exist if they aren't regulated" then I don't see how this does anything

2018-11-14 23:30:16 UTC  

I forgot what the original topic was and why I brought it up

2018-11-14 23:30:54 UTC  

Well the concept thing was a random thought you had about concepts only existing if you're rational. Idk what THAT had to do with rights either

2018-11-14 23:31:06 UTC  

Oh

2018-11-14 23:32:46 UTC  

Well its a line between us and animals as a man can find a cave based on percepts but to build any form of shelter he must think

2018-11-14 23:33:12 UTC  

To apply this concrete with this concrete which is integration

2018-11-14 23:33:45 UTC  

Again, that's fantastic. But we aren't discussing whether animals give each other animal rights. We're discussing highly cerebral concepts of human rights.

2018-11-14 23:34:52 UTC  

This also ties into the right of thought or mans ability to conceptualize

2018-11-14 23:35:04 UTC  

Which speech is a extension of thought

2018-11-14 23:36:09 UTC  

Also mans property rights come from man owning what he creates and himself which is part of rationality

2018-11-14 23:36:58 UTC  

Yes, rights are the extension of this thought into the material world. But there's no right to free speech if no one enforces your right to free speech. It would be an idea that you hold, not a thought that is extended into the material world. And his ownership is only recognized if he enforces his own ownership. (Or the government enforces his ownership for him)

2018-11-14 23:37:12 UTC  

You don't own land if you can't stop people from living and building on it.

2018-11-14 23:37:35 UTC  

You still own yourselves and your thoughts

2018-11-14 23:37:46 UTC  

Thoughts aren't inherently material

2018-11-14 23:38:04 UTC  

But the rights themselves are still there just force is imposed that restrict practice of these rights

2018-11-14 23:38:05 UTC  

They don't exist outside of conceptualization unless they are cast into the material world

2018-11-14 23:38:13 UTC  

The IDEA is still there

2018-11-14 23:38:24 UTC  

But ideas don't exist in the same way that rocks do

2018-11-14 23:38:30 UTC  

We need to define exist

2018-11-14 23:38:35 UTC  

Cause we're getting caught up on that

2018-11-14 23:38:49 UTC  

These are not dank memes

2018-11-14 23:39:02 UTC  

🕵

2018-11-14 23:39:18 UTC  

Will you fight? Or will you die like a dog?

2018-11-14 23:39:28 UTC  

😂 👌

2018-11-14 23:39:30 UTC  

Existence exists—and the act of grasping that statement implies two corollary axioms: that something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness, consciousness being the faculty of perceiving that which exists.

2018-11-14 23:40:06 UTC  

Solipsism ayy

2018-11-14 23:40:24 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/463059337162653716/512411512904613888/204eaf2.jpg

2018-11-14 23:41:39 UTC  

If you define existence like that then unicorns exist. You can perceive the thought of unicorns.

2018-11-14 23:42:04 UTC  

That's why that definition of existence is useless. Everything under that definition of existence "exists"