What makes a Nokton a Nokton ?
Its "nokton-ness"?
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Explanation of joke:
Metaphysics is regarded as “first Philosophy” insofar as it is concerned with issues and questions that are, to quite an extent, the most fundamental of issues and questions, as is the case when we wish to discover “being qua being”, or being understood as being...
...In the Aristotelian paradigm, he employs a rather cause-oriented approach of analysis, where we discover what the object is (causa formalis), who made the object (causa efficiens), of what the object is made (causa materialis), and what its teleological purpose (causa finalis) is. For instance, we have a chair (causa formalis), by the carpenter (causa efficiens), made of wood and nails (causa materialis), and meant to be seated on (causa finalis). Even if the chair may be made of ivory instead of wood, i.e., a special quality, we still recognize it as a chair, regardless. In what on the surface may appear to be an offshoot of the Platonic notion of the Eidos, then this so-called copy of the idea of a chair may have variations indeed, but because of its “chairness”, as it were, we can still safely call it a chair.
http://mistervader.blogspot.com/2007/07/virtueal-reality.html
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Hence, if one subscribes to the Platonic (as opposed to the Aristotelian) metaphysical paradigm, what makes a Nokton a Nokton is indeed its "Nokton-ness".
Hey - don't Nok it.
Nokton, Nokton...
Who's there?
Banana
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