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ChristianKl comments on Open Thread, January 4-10, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 11 January 2016 12:49:09PM 1 point [-]

A particularity of English is that to be means a lot of different things. It covers three distrinct categories in natural semantic metalanguage

Comment author: Viliam 12 January 2016 09:04:58AM 1 point [-]

Now I am curious whether most of the philosophy of "Being" are merely confusions caused by conflating some of those different meanings.