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[Anonymous No.18833680]

What is a chair according to philosophy?

[Anonymous No.18833685]

>>18833680
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfOVV7iUp10

[Anonymous No.18833688]

a featherless quadruped

[Anonymous No.18833689]

An idea, which is funny, because you can't sit on those.

[Anonymous No.18833690]

>>18833680
A cope from death

[Anonymous No.18833709]

I'm sure there are some autists who would write an essay on what chair is and somehow link it to consciousness and morals and some Greek guys living 2300 years ago, then create a camp of their own interpretations of chair's existence and some other guy will create another one and other guy another one and we will have physical chairanism, metaphysical chairanism, a new philosophy of ego based on chairesness that is inside us God I hate philosophy so much it's unreal

[Anonymous No.18833719]

>>18833709
Wisdom is a cock.

[Anonymous No.18833727]

Absolute Being

[Anonymous No.18833885]

>>18833680
something i cant have sex with, unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.18833909]

>>18833680
define according

[Anonymous No.18833914]

>>18833680
Be honest, did you just read that Russell book?

[Anonymous No.18833927]

http://brokenchairessays.com/

A brief moment to contemplate

[Anonymous No.18833954]

>philosophers can't into armless chairs
prove me wrong

[Anonymous No.18833994]

>>18833680
A piece of ready-to-hand equipment existing in a referential totality of other equipment, constituted by relations of towards-with, in-order-to and for-the-sake-of-which and ultimately Dasein's taking a stand on its own being. The chair is encountered as ready-to-hand and we experience it not as a substance but as equipment, legible only in reference to the equipmental totality of the world and our skillful absorption in it (Being-in-the-World).

[Anonymous No.18834028]

>>18833994
wat

[Anonymous No.18834039]

>>18833680
A chair is a state of affairs. It is composed of a number of things that share definite relations with each other. The possibility space created by the relations of these things encompass all possible states of affairs in which the chair itself can exist. What we cannot sit on, we must pass over while standing.

[Anonymous No.18834049]

mine

[Anonymous No.18834069]

>>18834028
Basically the chair is only ever encountered and made legible as a chair (and not as a bunch of brownish matter put together in a certain way) within a whole of practices and other equipment that give the chair a function and purpose. It is only a chair in a world which also features people who sit down, hammers, nails, wood, timber, houses, floors, tables, and ultimately, people or dasein, who ARE chair-makers or office workers and such. We are always already absorbed in the World and it is required to make things intelligible in such a way that we DON'T look at a chair and see a wooden structure with four pillars and a flat plain, we just immediately see a chair with a seat and some legs and know we can sit on it, that its appropriate to put at a table and such.

[Anonymous No.18834080]

A chair is whatever I call a chair when I have the power to enforce my conception on others.

[Anonymous No.18834084]

>>18833688
underrated

[Anonymous No.18834087]

>>18834080
>my conception
does it have anything to do with chairs?

[Anonymous No.18834099]

>>18833680
means of production

[Anonymous No.18834314]

Chair is a chair. If you think otherwise, you're a autist, incel.

Get a life faggot! We're living on this Earth.

[Anonymous No.18834720]

a chair

[Anonymous No.18834936]

a resulting participant of the chair non-chair relationship

[Anonymous No.18834949]

>>18834099
/thread

[Anonymous No.18835750]

>>18833680
whatever you use it for
don't look for a universal meaning, it's pointless

[Anonymous No.18835761]

>>18833688
Behold, anon's chair.

[Anonymous No.18835767]

>>18833680
A material object

[Anonymous No.18835812]

>>18833688
So it's a cat.

[Anonymous No.18836203]

>>18833709
based

[Anonymous No.18836667]

The essence of chairness is inherited from the essence of a "seat", which is something which one can sit on. The only essential property of a chair, which distinguishes it from, say, a stool, is that a chair has a back.

Therefore, the essence of a chair is a seat with a back.

[Anonymous No.18836689]

>>18836667
my bed is against the wall and it is possible to sit on it with my back on the wall. Does that make my bed and wall a chair

[Anonymous No.18836718]

>>18836689
No, because the seat does not have a back, but rather, you are using the wall as a back - so the object of your bed itself could not be said to be a seat with a back. Your bed would partake in the essence of "seat", though.

[Anonymous No.18836798]

>>18836718
okay but lets suppose anon's entire house fell down except for that piece of wall and all that remained of the house was his bed and and that wall. Over many decades vines grew around it, fusing the bed to the wall so that no single man could cleave them atwain. Everyone who ever lived that remembered that wall as part of a house past away. Now, a man, let's say Socrates, comes walking by. Socrates has been walking for 20 km and he could use a good rest but he's got hemorrhoids so refuses to sit on the ground. He sees the bed against the wall (though he does not recognize it as such) and exclaims "My god, it's the perfect chair for me to sit on." Is it a chair now?

[Anonymous No.18836808]

>>18836798
passed away*
that's embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.18836823]

>>18836667
You are mistaken anon, in a philosophical sense, the chair has arms.

[Anonymous No.18836831]

>>18835761
a cat with hair is already featherless but ok

[Anonymous No.18836839]

a chair is my perception of a chair

[Anonymous No.18836840]

A place for an ass.

[Anonymous No.18836843]

>>18833680
This refutes reductionism.

[S10241875 No.18836850]

>>18834720
You are the only philosopher in the thread.

[Anonymous No.18836857]

>>18836798
not that guy, but i say no
this is like saying that a rock you cut something with is a knife; you are using a rock as a knife, but it is still a rock
you would be using the bed-wall fusing as a chair, but ultimately it would still be a seat i think
that said, who knows. if a tree falls over and i sit on the stump with my back against the truck, is that a chair? i dont know

[Anonymous No.18836871]

>>18833680
The chair is a spook

[Anonymous No.18836877]

>>18833709
Already been done.

[Anonymous No.18836999]

>>18833688
kek

[Anonymous No.18837833]

>>18836823
>You are mistaken anon, in a philosophical sense, the chair has arms
Tell me this isn't a chair with a straight face
>>18836798
I think the deeper aspect of your proposition is "does one's perspective of an object effect its essence?", and I would say the answer to that has to be "no" - a cup still has the essence of a cup, even if it is shown to a tribe on the Sentinel Islands who has never seen such a complex instrument, and only drink from the river. They might emphasize aspects of other essences in which it partakes, like "treasure", but it is only rational to maintain that it is still a cup, even if nobody recognizes it as such. With regards to your example, because the bed and the wall are now linked as one compound object, I don't think it would be incorrect to say it now partakes in the essence of chairness, seeing as this new compound object is a seat with a back.

[Anonymous No.18837852]

That's really the chair's business and you should speak to them about it.

[Anonymous No.18838326]

>>18833688
Spbp, high IQ reference

[Anonymous No.18838408]

>>18835761
Why is his brain on his face?

[Anonymous No.18838411]

>>18833680
Incel cope.

[Anonymous No.18838419]

Chair is a social construct