07-01-2010, 12:02 AM
lex icon wrote:If you look at a car and then take away the windows, it still is recognizable as a car. If you keep taking away a screw here a bolt there, piece by piece dismantling at what point did it cease to be a car?
And the reverse. If you take a bolt here and a screw there, piece of glass and rubber etc at which point did the assembly actually "become" a car?
Thanks for getting us back on track Tiffany.
Yes, the mere car. Its a mental formation, an aggregate of phenomenal existence. A functional label that has no inherency, but does have function nonetheless.
And the reverse. If you take a bolt here and a screw there, piece of glass and rubber etc at which point did the assembly actually "become" a car?
Thanks for getting us back on track Tiffany.
Yes, the mere car. Its a mental formation, an aggregate of phenomenal existence. A functional label that has no inherency, but does have function nonetheless.