/lit/ - Literature

>>20037191
>Be Aristotle
>Nut in your wife
>First kid is a girl
>Second kid is a boy
>Ask around to see if this is the case for other people
>Seems kinda random but everyone has the same experience
>Therefore men and women are of the same seed (ball juice)
I put it as retarded as possible for you

>Why does abstract conceptualization have any value
The inference I've drawn about your intellectual abilities through my abstract conceptualization of material reality apropos your substantial qualitative properties has definitely convinced me that killing myself would be preferable than arguing against you

I'm a 200 IQ Chad so i can probably sum it up for you.

1. Aristotle thought that the world was cut up into discrete units he called substances. A chair, and a dog are not the same thing. The parts of the chair, like the legs, it's color, the particles that made it up, were also not the same thing. So, the world, said Aristotle, is made up of discrete units of individual things.

2. Hegel said no, it isn't (because he understood calculus ... sortof). The world is made up of discrete units only in so far as we are unable to see the connections between those units. Imagine a swimming pool full of marbles that are each glued to one another. If you pull on one marble hard enough then the whole pool full of marbles will eventually move. There's no real distinction between each marble as a consequence, even though we assume there is because the technical resolution of our senses is so low in comparison to the complexity of reality. Hegel then theorized that in order to truly understand a system one would need to map it out in its entirety. Or, as a methodology, approach the problem as if that were its only solution. Consider an infinite line. We make a rule that every point 1 inch from point A is to be colored blue. Well, the whole infinite line has to be colored blue, obviously. Hegel thought that we should use such reasoning to map out reality. Consider the blue as being our "accurate" comprehension of reality, a true map. And the infinite line on either side of the blue as being unknown reality.

3. Then Pierce came along and said, actually, retards, you absolute retards, you can't do that because the relationship between discrete units of reality doesn't even exist. Consider an infinite line once more. Now think of it this way, we take point A and make a rule that every point infinitesimally close to point A is colored blue.

Well, now there's an infinite amount of the line colored blue, and an infinite amount of the line on both sides of point A not colored blue.

In this way, the entire universe is continuous and unable to be sliced up into discrete units despite the progression of time. The blue on the line is like reality in the present, and the infinity on either side is the past and future. You can known an infinite amount about the present, and still not know anything with any degree of certainty about the past or the future.