In class I found the idea of treeness and later metaphysics particlarly interesting. One thing which particularly intrigued me was Plato's idea of starting with treeness, moving on to the tree, and onto experience of trees with no connection leading from experience of tree to treeness in that it is completely different from our ideas today starting with our experience of trees in order to define treeness. This further interested when a classmate briefly described metaphysics to me, particularly she used the idea of blueness. How do you define blue? How do you describe it to someone who has never seen blue before? I'm not sure it is possible to do either, blue is blue, there is not really a way to describe or define it, if you have seen blue you know what it is, if you have not it is probably impossible to imagine. Our ideas of treeness may be created by our experience but at least trees are describable while our ideas of blueness are also created by experience but it is impossible to describe without experience with the color itself.
The classmate's blogpost I read was interesting but there wasn't really much I could respond to because it was simply a summary of different parts of the reading rather than their interpretation. All I can really say is they did a good job with their summary.
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