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Metaphysics: with an analytical index..

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We are in 330 BC, Aristotle is sorting out the human knowledge. Let us give it a try assuming that you are also a human (sorry, machines). If we paint YOU orange, it does not change your essential condition of being a biped with a big brain also called HUMAN or ‘hUMaN’. Therefore orange is now the color of a particular human (you) and HUMAN is the uppercase version of the word which refers to your species. Notice that our little talk here never touched the definition of human. We just have two human brains playing with attributes of humans. The number 2 in this case refers US but does not exist anywhere other than within our brains. A clear definition of such abstractions is fundamental for science which is essentially creating isomorphisms between crude models and nature.

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Z. HANDIMAN

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110 ARI m

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New York : Columbia Univ. Press., 2003

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xvii,394p.; 25 cm.

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English

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0-472-06042-2

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METAPHYSICS

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