Message from @Existence is identity
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Where are you getting that?
From Ayn Rand
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
I dont know where she derived the definitions or if she changed it
Well just compare it to the standard definition of "concept". According to the general definition, everything is a concept
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Okay if you want to use this rando definition of concept, we can. What do you hope to achieve with this redefinition?
@DrWittMDPhD Its more broken down and fits her philosophy more and its how she broke down a man thinking and how the fundamentals
Plus its more clearly defined
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?
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
I forgot what the original topic was and why I brought it up
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
Oh
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
To apply this concrete with this concrete which is integration
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.
This also ties into the right of thought or mans ability to conceptualize
Also mans property rights come from man owning what he creates and himself which is part of rationality
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)
You don't own land if you can't stop people from living and building on it.
You still own yourselves and your thoughts
Thoughts aren't inherently material
But the rights themselves are still there just force is imposed that restrict practice of these rights
They don't exist outside of conceptualization unless they are cast into the material world
The IDEA is still there
But ideas don't exist in the same way that rocks do
We need to define exist
Cause we're getting caught up on that
These are not dank memes
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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.
Solipsism ayy
If you define existence like that then unicorns exist. You can perceive the thought of unicorns.
That's why that definition of existence is useless. Everything under that definition of existence "exists"