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Originally Posted by EnderD_503

It appears that the reason you support essentialism in this case is not because constructivism or a medium between essentialism and constructivism (which is basically what Butler is proposing) cannot exist, but because you might believe that the idea that something that is so much a part of you must be 100% innate.

I don’t necessarily support essentialism. I just feel like the argument against it is “essentialism does not exist because we can’t see it”

like I said in the OP, I didn’t have time to follow up on Butler like I wanted to b/c I am in the middle of writing a paper on “On Truth and Lying in a Non-moral Sense”

Our assignment is to trace the influence of Nietzsche’s rejection of the correspondence theory of truth

It looks to me like Nietzsche’s rejection of the” thing-in-itself” was based on our inability to perceive it, and not on whether it existed or not

Its like if my shih-tzu went out and tried to convince all her friends there is such a color as red

She would be basing it on hearsay and the other dogs would laugh at her and she wouldn’t be able to prove it and they wouldn’t be able to do anything with it even if she could

But she would not be wrong