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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (69303)	12/3/2002 11:48:06 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

Ok how is difference not a human concept? What would "difference" be without a human to notice and call things "different"? What is the objective nature of difference? That no two things are the same? That not even the same thing is the same moment to moment? So what? Is that "difference"? That did not appear to be what people were arguing. Neo seems to think that NY is objectively different (and more important) than other places on the planet. Everything is "different"- objectively, in that nothing is the same, but that wasn't what we were talking about. We were talking about subjective differences between things- and when we talk about difference between things, it is necessarily subjective, because we choose what the comparison is between. If you simply want to say there are objective differences between all things that exist, I would say possibly- but I can't be sure- since I do not know everything that exists in the universe. And neither, I suspect, does anyone else.