@Aedes,
Aedes wrote:This has nothing to do with reality. It has only to do with the cognitive concept contained in the verb to be.
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You're confusing a linguistic concept with a physical concept simply because they share some words in common. Look beyond the words.
Concepts are concepts... A is A, and I am not confusing beans.. If you look at words, say, black man, white man; is there some distinction to keep either from consideration as men??? Civil rights, property rights, if the distinction be real, should not be considered as other than rights... Concepts of this sort or that sort are equally concepts... Reality is different, but we concieve of physical reality and moral reality by the same method, by forms...
Regardless of how it is phrased, identity has nothing to do, by itself with being, because being is assumed everywhere... Look at Plato, or really any ancient philsophers and the question never comes up... From the beginning people have focused, on the stars, on matter, on movement, on morals, on God; but what we have is fraction of a fraction on existence, the soul and that rot... People do not need proof of what is obvious, and logic has always been born out of utility... If people cannot agree to the first part of any logical discussion, which is, that terms will not suddenly sprout new meanings, then no one can progress... A as A is only about forms...