Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)
Very Bad Wizards
Is the Dog at Three 15 the Same Dog at Four 20?
i think i have nominalist leanings on this front, in which when we start to universalize and systematize, we are doing that to be useful, but we're not adding to the truth. There's a line with the dog, like, it irritated him that the dog at that he saw at three 15 is the same dog as one he saw two seconds later. It's like, what does that mean? Is he denying that they are the same dog? Like, what does he think a like a dog is, or the same dog would even mean? Well, that's a great example of how true bores is about the identity of the dog. He's saying
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