Horton hears a whoness
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Well, in “who am I”, I understand that the “am” is the domain of ontology, and
if the answer is that “I” is “a mammal”, or “Wu Ming, General Citizen, SS#
123-45-6789″, then the answer is about where the “I” fits in a taxonomy or
database, is knowledge and thus epistemological.
I’m curious about claims that who-ness is properly an issue of ontology. People
are encountered in an openness, and the “who that I am” may be reflective
happening in that open. But is that, in and of itself, sufficient to make
whoness an ontological issue?
— Joseph Polanik wrote:
> 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
>
>
> –
> Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the
> first person. — H-N Castaneda
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