The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Socrates

What if Socrates was necessarily a thinking being but only contingently a human rather than a sponge, a hippopotamus, or a rat?

So he was essentially a thinking thing but only accidentally a human?

So he was substantially a thinking thing?

So Descartes and Plato were right?

He was essentially a res cogitans but only accidentally a human - isn't that something substance dualism entails?

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