tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post926263526754094866..comments2024-03-18T20:24:18.935-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Fingers and other alleged body partsAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-25883613055904824032017-02-02T08:37:39.829-06:002017-02-02T08:37:39.829-06:00Michael:
The problem is that fingers just don'...Michael:<br /><br />The problem is that fingers just don't really exist. The things that exist are well-bounded in a way that fingers are not. A finger would be like one's left half.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-74754838507941942512017-02-01T15:25:01.363-06:002017-02-01T15:25:01.363-06:00Certain hylemorphic viewpoints specially privilege...Certain hylemorphic viewpoints specially privilege the "whole organism" level of granularity even though if we use a cellular level or smaller granularity there are no clear-cut boundaries to our fingers, nor of our bodies as a whole. <br /><br />Perhaps what really matters is that we can adjust the scale we need to use for what we need to do.<br />Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12533263841520213358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-76572621112394860462017-02-01T12:21:13.184-06:002017-02-01T12:21:13.184-06:00I don't understand the problem. If some injury...I don't understand the problem. If some injury caused my left arm to become completely unusable, it would still be the case that I have a left arm. Swinging it at someone would require effort in the torso, but that doesn't make it any less my arm.<br /><br />Likewise, given that the fingers have clearly delineated locations on the body, and are the parts by which I do various things, I don't see how or why we would stop calling them a proper part.Michael Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05279261871735286117noreply@blogger.com