Sunday, December 27, 2020

Defining Terms

I spent some hours today reading up on terms I use in my opus -- above all "things" and "concepts". It seems that my terms are fine. I generally check them first, then use them in my writing, then check them again. In my scheme, "things" and "concepts" are basically the same. In some schemes, they are the very opposite. That is how it is in philosophy! But the purpose is that, at the end of the day, it should be clear what I mean by the terms, and that they should work in my metaphysic. OBSERVATION: I try to keep them simple in the text, and move various nuances to the endnotes if they are not immediately relevant in the text.

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