Horton hears a somewho (noob question)
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That Pete wrote:
> Why is “who am I” an ontological, rather than an epistemological question?
ontology concerns what there is; so, ‘what am I?’ is an ontological
question; but, of course, any proposed answer will raise the
epistemological question, ‘how do you know that?’.
‘who am I?’ just asks about the idiosyncracies of your life. you work
this job, have such and such a personality, perfer one type of movie
etc. someone else has a different job, a different personality and
different tastes in movies and so on.
some of this may raise the epistemological question; for example, how do
you know your personality is such and such; but, there is no ontological
significance to your particular personality, demographic variables,
ethnic and/or racial affiliations and so on.
Joe
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Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the
first person. — H-N Castaneda
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