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| yesterday | comment | added | JimmyJames | Does a tool need to be a physical object? E.g., is an algorithm a tool? | |
| 2 days ago | vote | accept | Maxime Jaccon | ||
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Maxime Jaccon | @DanielB it also crossed my mind ;) | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Daniel B | I would also be interested in "What makes someone a tool" but that might be better for the interpersonal interaction stack. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | user553637 | A rock can be a tool. The existence of a rock is not really a means to an end. Utility is what turns a rock into a tool. While some tools become obsolete over time a rock doesn't suffer that fate. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Michael Hall | Everything... everything that exists is defined by its temporariliy, therefore it isn't useful to attempt to distinguish on this basis. If you meant something different then please clarify. DV for yet another dictionary question. | |
| 2 days ago | answer | added | Ted Wrigley | timeline score: 4 | |
| 2 days ago | history | edited | Barmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| 2 days ago | answer | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | timeline score: 1 | |
| 2 days ago | history | edited | J D |
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| 2 days ago | comment | added | J D | @JoWehler I think you might want to reconsider the claim the essence of 'tool' reduces to a such a simple phrase: philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/135737/40730 | |
| 2 days ago | answer | added | J D | timeline score: 2 | |
| 2 days ago | history | edited | J D |
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| 2 days ago | comment | added | Double Knot | For Bataille a tool is not just something that does work. It is something whose being is defined by not being for itself, wherefore projective linear temporality as a deferred and accumulative ontic form is the deeper structure while utility is its social economic expression. Because most art objects still get reabsorbed into utility, art only imperfectly escapes tool-y ready-to-hand-ness, perhaps only monetarily in the rupture with wasteful excess and self-undermining... | |
| 2 days ago | answer | added | Professor Sushing | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 29 at 6:28 | history | edited | J D | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 29 at 4:21 | comment | added | Jo Wehler | A tool is made to serve a specific function. That's its essential feature. - There is no need to blow-up mundane facts in the context of a "Theory of Religion". | |
| Jan 29 at 3:44 | history | asked | Maxime Jaccon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |