Do Chairs Exist?
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Published 2021-09-14
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Metametaphysics (Eds. David Chalmers, David Manley, Ryan Wasserman)
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Material Beings (Peter Van Inwagen)
Objects and Persons (Trenton Merricks)
Ordinary Objects (Amie Thomasson)
Ontology Made Easy (Amie Thomasson)
Ontology, Modality and the Fallacy of Reference (Michael Jubien)
Objects: Nothing our of the Ordinary (Daniel Z. Korman)
Composition as Identity (eds. Cotnoir, Baxter)
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Austere Realism (Horgan and Potrc)
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Alan Watts)
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Thinking about Things (Jubien): www.jstor.org/stable/2676165
There are no Ordinary Things (Unger): www.jstor.org/stable/20115446
Against Parthood (Sider): www.tedsider.org/papers/nihilism.pdf
A Sweater Unraveled (Sidelle): www.jstor.org/stable/2671870
On What There Is (Quine): www.jstor.org/stable/20123117
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All Comments (21)
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No officer I didnt kill him, I just arranged his simples dead-wise.
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Two ontological antirealists walk into a bunch of atoms arranged bar-wise.
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"I am Death and I am the scattering" is really not how I thought a video about chairs existence would end but I'm here for it
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“I am death and I AM the scattering.” Metal lyrics
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Michael: do chairs exist? Michael 30 minutes later: I am death
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Other mammals: “Must get food to survive.” Humans: “Do chairs exist?”
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The line “I am not a thing that dies and then scatters; I am death and I am the scattering” is now one of my favorite quotes and it comes from a video debating the existence of chairs
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The answer I took from this is "it is what it is if it's useful". A random scattering of pipes doesn't have a name because it's not useful to give it a name, but together it's scaffolding
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Michael at the beginning: "Do chairs exist?" Michael at the end: "I am death"
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"Michael, take a seat, we need to talk" "Do chairs exists?" "MICHAEL"
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How can this man taste a chair, pull a spoon out of his shirt, and pull a slice of cheese out of his shirt, and yet teach us things others struggle to.
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It feels so much better when this conversation is happening outside of my head for a change. Also, "thank you for watching?" Did you just call me a watch? I don't have time for that kind of confusion.
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Love the fact that a chair is most defined by "something to sit in" yet Michael sits on the floor next to the chair for the whole video.
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I love how the chair is just sitting there not debating it's existence
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"alleged chair" is going on my gravestone
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What an awesome way to start 2024, studying human thought and existentialism watching Vsauce at 1am.
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Alternate Title: Michael bullies a chair by questioning it’s existence for 37 minutes and 53 seconds
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Vsauce: "Do chairs exist?" 2 million people sitting on a chair: "Hmm interesting"
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i never thought “i am death” would be a comforting statement
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I'm surprised you never mentioned Plato's ontology. Throughout the whole video my brain was crying for it, this would solve so many of the posed questions! Plato would probably say a chair is a piece of furniture for one person to sit and lean back on. What happens if you remove some atoms from it? If you can sit on it, it's still a chair. When does it stop being a chair? When you can no longer sit on it.
