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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
If any of them asked the question: "What is the meaning of friendship?" with no other information, then yes. What are we supposed to be talking about here? |
You're still unsure about what the topic is after 35 posts?
We may attach meaning to several things in life. What ivofivo calls "friendship" is one of those things. Though this would be a verbose way of posing the question, this is what we are supposed to be talking about here:What sort of values and narratives, and by that we mean social and personal relations we construe with the objects of our experience, and by experience we mean what we perceive through our senses and mental faculties, and I really can't be arsed to define what the hell these are supposed to be as I'd rather believe you know what I'm talking about before I'm sucked into an endless reduction, do we attach to a social phenomenon described informally by a group of people loosely self-described as "the speakers of English", despite the fact that the definition of language is a very problematic one and that many posters in this thread do not belong to this group if you think about it as those who came to speak this system of linguistic symbols in their infancy, as the word "friendship"? Or, in a more informal setting, he's asking what the meaning of friendship is. If you need a clarification of what other people mean by "friendship", check my post with the cute drawings. So far, no one seems to have had an issue with that definition of friendship, so we can use it from now on.
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What defines a friendship? |
I answered it a few posts above. We can also use a dictionary, if you find that unnecessarily complicated.
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The social point of friendship? |
Well, we can talk about this... though this would be more like "What are the social implications of friendship?". Though, of course, you can't have a friendship unless you've got a group (and by group I mean at least two people), and if you're in a more Wittgensteinian mood you may also say that this is exactly what you need in order to have meaning...
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The evolutionary point of friendship? |
And this... though this more like "What's the origin of friendship?" than its actual meaning.
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The emotions of friendship? |
Hmm.... they're an inherent part of friendship, but they're not the meaning per se unless, of course, you think the sole meaning of friendship is "a social bond that makes us feel good" or something of that sort.
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The practical application of friendship? |
If you think this is part of the meaning, then yeah.
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
The intangible essence of "true" friendship? |
If you think this is part of the meaning, then yeah.
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There is just a subject, and a question. There's no point of entry, no anecdote, no framework. |
Blimey, do we need all this to answer a question? Remind me not to ever ask you what the time is, I don't even know how I could possibly get started! 
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