We don't do philosophy here

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XEAL@lemm.ee · 61 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Imagine if hospitals used this logic with patients...

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 100 pts · 2y (3 replies)

"We replaced so much of him that Cigna is arguing that he's no longer the individual they insured."

toast@retrolemmy.com · 31 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Strange, though, how the same argument doesn't seem to work for past medical debt

Wilzax@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

It doesn't work in the given scenario either

lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 2y

Put me in a ghost in the shell body right now god damn it.

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 33 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Bro just call the clock the Harrison clock, haecceity is transferable bro lol, just name things and treat them like the thing you named them after lol, it's not hard

KingOfSleep@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 2y

TIL

haec·ce·i·ty

noun

Philosophy

that property or quality of a thing by virtue of which it is unique or describable as “this (one).”.

the property of being a unique and individual thing.

"he has a paramount concern with haecceity, the thisness of things

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y

Theseus hates this one trick!

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 2y

Or make a new clock and call it Harrison 2, and see if it can beat the original's record, like jeez

MacedWindow@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y

Got curious and did some digging, found this video about their decision to stop the clock.