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Kenny posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
Listening to the last vidchat and got interested in researching the word Hypostasis (that which stands under reality). Spanish is very descriptive there are so many words describing Hypostasis, all attached to personhood and individuality. I think those Greek Theologians were brilliant by not defining what a person is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostasis_(philosophy_and_religion)
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Wiktionary has this meaning for hypostasis ; (the) effect of one gene preventing another from expressing. How strange.
There is a medical condition by the name hypostasis. Related to poor blood circulation.
blood, genes, personhood…interesting
I’m not a philosopher but it seems to me that Chomsky might provide an in-road into this perplexing space. Whereas Goedel’s theorums state that ” in any consistent formal system F within which a certain amount of arithmetic can be carried out, there are statements of the language of F which can neither be proved nor disproved in F. According to the second theorem, such a formal system cannot prove that the system itself is consistent (assuming it is indeed consistent)..”
If we determine our personhood to be a relationship between hypostasis and an incomplete analogical linguistic system then is a Chomskian lexical entry another way of describing our will to do good in an incomplete universe ?