[MD] Platt's Individual Level

Platt Holden pholden at davtv.com
Mon Jun 19 07:30:56 PDT 2006


Hi Ant:

> Having said this, Rahula (1959, p.55)  makes it very clear that it’s not
> incorrect to ‘use such expressions in our daily life as ‘I’, ‘you’,
> ‘being’, ‘individual’, etc’ as long as it is remembered that the self
> (like anything else conceptualised) is just a useful convention.

Since the self (individual) is just a useful convention "like anything 
else conceptualized" you've shown that your thesis as well as all of 
philosophy is just a useful convention since it's all "conceptualized."
No wonder the "I" or "self" puts philosophy in a quandary. :-) 

Regards,
Platt





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