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    Summary of Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein's Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...
    Summary of Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein's Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...
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    #1 The meaning of life is a slippery subject. There are questions beyond scientific observation that are called metaphysics. The telos of human life is happiness, but it’s not everybody’s cup of tea.

    #2 The structure of reality is slippery. Some philosophers draw a distinction between essential and accidental properties. The way Aristotle put it is that essential properties are those without which a thing wouldn’t be what it is, and accidental properties are those that determine how a thing is, but not what it is.

    #3 The meaning of life is slippery. The structure of reality is slippery. Some philosophers draw a distinction between essential and accidental properties.

    #4 The structure of reality is slippery. Some philosophers draw a distinction between essential and accidental properties. The meaning of life is slippery.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateOct 4, 2022
    ISBN9798350032406
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      #1

      The telos of life is a slippery concept. It is not everybody’s cup of tea. It is the inner goal that human beings are meant to attain. It is not every individual’s goals in life, but rather the universal telos of life.

      #2

      The distinction between essential and accidental properties is illustrated by a number of jokes. For example, a herring is green, hangs on the wall, and whistles. But a herring isn’t green as an essential property, and it doesn’t whistle.

      #3

      The joke says that something as small, white, and round as an aspirin cannot be an elephant. However, bigness, grayness, and wrinkledness are not precise enough terms to be the essential qualities of an elephant.

      #4

      The seventeenth-century rationalist philosopher

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