Talk:Objecthood

Cleanup and POV

This text definitely was not written with Wikipedia in mind. Rampant use of HTML tags (fixed), non-existant leading sentence (fixed) and blatant POV (not fixed). I'm not knowledgable on this subject, but the article needs work. — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 02:14, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

This article and others like it were written by a person with a good philosophic intellect. He understands what he is trying to say. In philosophy, you have to actually grasp the problems and ideas yourself so as to be able to tell someone about it in your own way. Nobody can actually duplicate the explanations of others, unless perhaps a parrot. So, reading a philosophic article is apt to be tough going, as you have to clue in on the writer's frame of reference. This is asking a lot from the casual reader. I wouldn't throw this article away at all. What we can do is explain things a little more and make it more readable. In doing that we run the risk of misunderstanding the author or of putting things in a way he would not. Fools step in where angels fear to tread, so I would like to start making a few such more readable elucidations from the top down. I will go very slowly. If anything does not meet with anyone's approval, please revert it and/or correct it.Botteville 17:28, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Rewriting philosophical articles such as this one may be a challenge, but Wikipedia's No original research tenet eases that challenge, so I will try to rewrite this in a more encyclopedic tone. The Rod 22:18, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction

OK, that is enough for today. I will be back down the road to see what you have made of it and add more if you like the direction.Botteville 18:10, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]