If something exists, does that not mean that there must be a something-est something?

If something exists, does that not mean that there must be a something-est something?

Say for the sake of argument that we both agree that a trumpet is something that exists. From among the entirety of the species of what we identify as a trumpet, would we be able to identify the one that most embodied the qualities of being a trumpet?

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No fuck off Plato.

*hits bong*

a trombone

Fuck off Plato.

let's say, for arguments' sake, that this is true. then what?

Well, where does one start? There is an idea of the trumpet, but wouldn't it be better to divide this idea further according to the uses of the trumpet? So then we get trumpet A and trumpet B, with their properties changing as so does their use? Would the best trumpet be the best for what? I guess it is the one who most satisfies the trumpeter's needs when playing.

well we argue all the time about which form of leftism the marxist-est leftism so it must be true, right…?

OP, you overlooked a fact: you could have trumpetness, but the moment you perceive trumpetess you need to recognize a negative of it.

Let me stop you right there because nothing exists. Thing-ness is an abstraction created by our minds to make the world inelligible. The world is simply the world, a vast holistic existence. Whatever we might say about things as things (rather than things as references to the universe within particular bounds) applies only to the abstract, artificial echo of the world we create to deal with the world.

Posadism is the form from which all other forms of imperfect leftism are derived. I thought we all knew this?

Natural numbers "exist". What's the largest number?

Are you an empiricist?

I guess.

the marxist-est leftism is leftism without marx

all the trumpets should go to the best trumpet player

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Doesn't follow.

What?

There can be Truth; immanent, universally establishable quality, but it cannot be graded qualitatively as its own immutable, fixed in time and space Truth.

Mathematical Platonists get out re

While your mind is material, the thingness your mind imposes is an emergent property that does not exist materially, only abstractly.

how can something abstract have concrete consequences?

Then we find the most socialist socialist and he will lead us to the promised commune.

Trumpeting, one would think.

Fuck off so-crates

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But user, nothing in our lives exist. We're all holograms. We are but 3D projections of a 2D reality; volume is an illusion, a mere side effect of the existence of surface areas. The shadows on the cave wall were the real beings all along.

Are you saying that anime is real

If you were being serious, I'd have to say that argument is already loaded with a bunch of presuppositions. But socialist theory is an evolving, hopefully scientific school of thought. Nobody can be the most socialist socialist anymore than one can be the most physicist physicist, unless the most socialist socialist is the one that is the closes to the truth of revolutionary socialist theory. But how do you find that socialist without experimenting on their theories, in the same way that you cannot find the physicist closest to the truth without experimenting on theirs? And given the magnitude of the problem of directing, taking advantage of, building etc. social movements and revolutionary activity, it isn't so easy to just choose the guy closest to the truth out of a lineup of thinkers, especially when he has muh privileged thought that we apparently can't obtain.

I'm afraid anime is just a 2D projection of a 3D projection (us). That makes anime twice unreal. I'm sorry.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_model_of_arithmetic

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read hegel

No, because -est is a human invented concept. Things just are, but people project subjective meaning onto them. Physically a trumpet is just contorted metal, what makes it a trumpet is arbitrary human standards.

how does reading an idealist help me in trying to show that guy that ideology is material?