Show HN: A high-schoolish "Oh Right." moment comments on Facebook So many of us are thrillfully justifying our existence by diving into the explanation as to why we use Facebook, or shouldn't. I'm noticing a bit of maturity to the arguments now. It seems a rather curious philosophical statement exists, and is namely the thing I wish to Show HN; namely:
What should we do with it? What can we do with it? For instance, one procedure to this statement might be that:
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Now this one is curious, since it does not immediately suggest that Facebook is even used in a sense of "mention" à la Korzybskian (Alfred Korzybski) sentences. You could call them Gödel statements, Repeatability statements, explosive statements perchance. But the statement does not merely contingently re-use Facebook in a dual sense, but necessarily so, in the following way:
Here we find that "Facebook" is used in only one sense, a material one which merely refers to it, namely "Facebook."It's quite simple. You use Facebook because everybody else uses Facebook. Whence cometh autonomy ? It seems at the end of the historical use of terms like Facebook; it seems to matter what we call things. Someone call Mr. Fry. |
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